Sleep Is for Forgetting

By G. Poe. 2017

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

It is possible that one of the essential functions of sleep is to take out the garbage, as it were, erasing and “forgetting” information built up throughout the day that would clutter the synaptic network that defines us. It may also be that this cleanup function of sleep is a general principle of neuroscience, applicable to every creature with a nervous system.

Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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In Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

1. Christopher Kanan
2. Ronald Kemker

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Christopher Kanan
2. Ronald Kemker
3. Ali Ayub
4. Alan R. Wagner
5. Tyler L. Hayes
6. Vincenzo Lomonaco
7. Bing Liu
8. Feng Zhu

Citations in the corpus

• FearNet: Brain-Inspired Model for Incremental Learning (2017, background): “, 2007), and that forgetting occurs during sleep (Poe, 2017).”