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Pulling an all-nighter

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Research indicates that sleep influences learning, but little is known about the mechanisms involved. A recent article suggests that sleep modifies the firing patterns of sensorimotor neurons before there is improvement in performance.

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Figure 1: Experimental timeline and representations of song during learning.

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  1. Christopher M Glaze is in the Biology Department, University of Pennsylvania, 312 Leidy Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. Todd.troyer@utsa.edu or cglaze@sas.upenn.edu

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