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Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test (2009)
Journal Article
Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Preston, B. T., Nunn, C. L., & Barton, R. A. (2009). Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test. PLoS ONE, 4(2), e4609. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004609

Sleep is a pervasive characteristic of mammalian species, yet its purpose remains obscure. It is often proposed that 'sleep is for the brain', a view that is supported by experimental studies showing that sleep improves cognitive processes such as me... Read More about Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test.

Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep (2009)
Journal Article
Preston, B. T., Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Barton, R. A., & Nunn, C. L. (2009). Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep. BMC evolutionary biology, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-7

Background. Sleep is a biological enigma. Despite occupying much of an animal's life, and having been scrutinized by numerous experimental studies, there is still no consensus on its function. Similarly, no hypothesis has yet explained why species ha... Read More about Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep.