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Sleep consolidation of interfering auditory memories in starlings

March 20, 2013 by

Sleep plays an important role in the brain’s ability to consolidate learning when two new potentially competing tasks are learned in the same day, according to a new study that measured starlings' ability to recognize new songs.

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