How sharp-wave ripples affect memory The researchers identified large sharp-wave ripples, a subset of brain activity patterns around 100 milliseconds long that is involved in consolidating and ...

Neuroscientists have established in recent decades the idea that some of each day's experiences are converted by the brain into permanent memories during sleep the same night. Now, a new study ...

Researchers have found that a specific pattern of brain activity, known as 'sharp-wave ripples,' is associated with thoughts that wander from the present situation. This activity begins in the ...

Part of what makes us human is our ability to think about people, places, or events that aren't currently present - but we still don't know exactly how our brains do this. Now, researchers from Osaka ...

Researchers from Osaka University find that mind wandering, especially when associated with less pleasurable and more vivid and imaginative self-generated thoughts, is associated with a specific ...