How REM and non-REM sleep may work together to help us solve problems

Published on May 15, 2018

Sleep is known to be important for creative thinking, but exactly how it helps and what role each sleep stage — REM and non-REM — plays remains unclear. A team of researchers have now developed a theory to explain how the interleaving of REM and non-REM sleep might facilitate creative problem solving in different but complementary ways.

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