First Evidence of Replay During Sleep in the Human Motor Cortex, Which Governs Voluntary Movement
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, may help explain how humans form memories and learn, and could eventually aid the development of a...