Sara Mednick

"Separate offline neural mechanisms underlying long-term and working memory processing during sleep compete with one another, which means that the brain has to toggle between the two," said co-author Sara Mednick, UCI professor of cognitive sciences. "Our findings provide the first evidence of this sleep switch mechanism." The director of UCI's Sleep and Cognition Lab, she specializes in research on the critical role rest plays in human memory. 

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