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Nature Neuroscience 10, 1085 - 1086 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0907-1085

One memory, two ways to consolidate?

Susanne Diekelmann1 & Jan Born1

  1. The authors are at the University of Lübeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Haus 23a, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany. e-mail: born@kfg.uni-luebeck.de


Memories for motor skills become resistant to interference during wakefulness within a few hours. A new study shows that such stabilization occurs faster during sleep, possibly by activating a different type of consolidation.

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