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Research on the relationship between episodic memory and sleep in human
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Abstract
This paper reviews and analyzes the important "memory" aspect of brain science, mainly through reading and summarizing the existing literature to explain the relationship between episodic memory and sleep. A large amount of literature on Google scholar shows that sleep plays an important role in consolidating episodic memories, and gives experiments and evidence to support this idea. The study found that slow-wave sleep is an important period for memory consolidation, and that different stages of sleep also play a part in the memory consolidation process. Various experiments have demonstrated the important link between sleep and episodic memory storage, which means that memory quality is closely related to sleep. This paper also contains two hypotheses for the process of memory Consolidation: the "Active System Consolidation Hypothesis" and the "Synaptic Homeostasis Hypothesis". In the course of research, we haven't seen much literature supporting the existence of episodic memory in animals, but they do have memories that look a lot like episodic memory, which most scientists call "episodic-like memory."
Keywords
episodic memory, human, memory consolidation, sleep
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biological Engineering and Medical Science
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-219-0
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-220-6
- Published Date
- 20 December 2023
- Series
- Theoretical and Natural Science
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-8818
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-8826
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-8818/23/20231024
- Copyright
- 20 December 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited