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Sleep & Memory
Why sleep makes learning stick: the hippocampus as inbox, deep slow-wave sleep transferring memories to the cortex, REM for emotion and connections, naps, all-nighters, and practical study schedules, with a note on overstated claims.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Sleep stages & cycles. Next: Fixing your sleep; Spaced repetition. Sources: Diekelmann & Born, 'The memory function of sleep' (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010); Matthew Walker, *Why We Sleep* (2017), with Alexey Guzey's critique (2019).Next: 1. Before and after learning