Slow Wave Sleep

Sleep is composed of four stages, the deepest of which are known as Slow Wave Sleep and Rapid Eye Movement (REM). These stages are responsible when it comes to our memories. When we sleep our short term memories are turn into long term memory, this is called memory consolidation. The hippocampus is lobe structure with important roles for memory formatting especially factual and verbal knowledge. During slow-wave sleep (SWS) memories newly encoded into a temporary store (i.e. the hippocampus in the declarative memory system) are reactivated to be redistributed to the long-term store (Born & Wilhelm, 2012). When college students stay up all night cramping information, they’re not actually memorizing them if they don’t sleep. When in reality