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This is Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science.

I'm Karen Hopkins.

When someone tells you to sleep on it, they're usually suggesting that you avoid making rash decisions.

But sleep is also widely known to help you remember things you've learned.

Now, a nap might seem inconvenient when

you're cramming for an exam, but don't worry, because a new study shows that rats who stayed awake

after engaging with novel objects could remember seeing those things a week later, sometimes

better than rats who'd slept. That suggests that long-term memories can be laid down without having to lay down.

The results appear in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

We know that memory consolidation is promoted by sleep.

Marian Inostroza of the University of Tübingen.

She says that decades of studies have shown that sleep helps to transform, or consolidate, recent experiences into lasting memories. However, there is also evidence

for consolidation into long-term memory during wakefulness. And against this background, we became interested in the question whether sleep is the only condition,

is a critical condition for the formation of long-term memories.

Jan Bourne directs the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tübingen.

For Bourne, the bottom line is,

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