Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Assistant Professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences of neurobiology and behavior and Azahara Oliva, Assistant Professor of neurobiology and behavior found a pattern of ripples in Brain activty during sleep that affects memories. Azahara Oliva said, “This study advance our understanding of memory processing in the brain". Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz is quoted as saying, “Ripples are mediating the transfer of memory from the initial encoding in the hippocampus to long-term stable storage in the neocortex” Read the entire story in Neuroscience News.