Sleep consolidates newly acquired motor skills, leading to improvements in performance after sleep. A study now finds that similar performance improvements following sleep can rely on different neural mechanisms depending on the properties of the learning task.
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Diekelmann, S. Neuroscience: Sleep, memories, and the brain. Nat Hum Behav 1, 0124 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0124
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