Stroke induces a plastic state in the brain. This period of enhanced plasticity leads to the
sprouting of new axons, the formation of new synapses and the remapping of sensory-motor …

Sleep is universal, tightly regulated, and its loss impairs cognition. But why does the brain
need to disconnect from the environment for hours every day? The synaptic homeostasis …

Motor skills can take weeks to months to acquire and can diminish over time in the absence
of continued practice. Thus, strategies that enhance skill acquisition or retention are of great …

Sleep supports healthy cognitive functioning in adults. Over the past decade, research has
emerged advancing our understanding of sleep's role in cognition during development …

This paper reviews a novel hypothesis about the functions of slow wave sleep—the synaptic
homeostasis hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, plastic processes occurring during …

The concept of 'sleeping on a problem'is familiar to most of us. But with myriad stages of
sleep, forms of memory and processes of memory encoding and consolidation, sorting out …

Adaptation to a novel visuomotor transformation has revealed important principles regarding
learning and memory. Computational and behavioral studies have suggested that …

Human sleep is a global state whose functions remain unclear. During much of sleep,
cortical neurons undergo slow oscillations in membrane potential, which appear in …

The public pays large sums of money to watch skilled motor performance. Notably, however,
in recent decades motor skill learning (performance improvement beyond baseline levels) …

During much of sleep, the cerebral cortex is rippled by slow waves, which appear in the
electroencephalogram as oscillations between 0.5 and 4.5 Hz. Slow waves are regulated as …