Sleep
... 1999) Memory formation during sleep explained. ... This article explains that researchers knew that what we learn during the day needs REM sleep in order to be transformed into long term memory but the problem is that they didn’t know how this development happens. ... It was found that Zif-268 expression amplified after the motivation and also there was a re-upregulation on the gene during the REM sleep of the stimulated group of rats. This statement means that something that happened during the stimulation affects the expression of the gene during REM sleep. Researchers noticed that the sections of the brain activated during the experiment, were the same as those that were active during the REM sleep. To conclude this conducted experiment, scientists think that sleep after learning something might be the best way to store new things. ... 1993) Function of sleep. ... 383-385 This article gives details about the two main hypotheses of the function sleep. ... Obviously, researchers think that there is a strong link between slow wave sleep and conservation of energy.