Research exploring the idea that blocking these receptors would disrupt the creation of proteins necessary for consolidating fearful memories in the amygdala.

Extensive evidence suggests that stress hormones such as epinephrine play a critical role in consolidating new memories and this is why stressful memories are recalled vividly.

There is a relatively small body of evidence that supports the idea that REM sleep helps consolidate highly emotional declarative memories.

Researchers now believe that dreams help us process emotions, consolidate memories, and more.

In fact, it seems to be the exact opposite, where sleep helps consolidate memories instead.

Both researchers emphasized that this finding was only a first step in exploring the biology of how the brain consolidates and manipulates memories.

While short-term memory can hold a lot of information, it may be that sleep helps consolidate memories in ways that are more useful to the student.

Thus, canaries have served as model species for discovering how the vertebrate brain learns, consolidates memories, and recalls coordinated motor movements.

Slow-wave sleep is considered important to consolidate new memories.

In effect, they found, the brain appears to use sleep time to consolidate memories.