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Data collected from a tetraplegic man learning a BCI to play Simon showed the brain replays the learned information during sleep.Why do we sleep? Scientists have debated this question for millennia, but a new study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), conducted in collaboration with colleagues at Brown University, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and several other institutions, adds new clues for solving this mystery. Their findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience...

Researchers look at “replay” during sleep, which is theorized to be a strategy the brain uses to remember new information.