How random sounds played while sleeping impair memory formation

For several years now, sleep research has been focusing intensively on the question of whether targeted auditory stimulation during sleep can improve the consolidation of new memories.

A research team in Freiburg led by the neuropsychologists Prof.

Dr.

Monika Schönauer and Dr.

Nora Roüast has discovered that auditory stimuli during sleep can also have undesirable consequences. ...