Research on the relationship between episodic memory and sleep in human

Abstract

This paper reviews and analyzes the important "memory" aspect of brain science, mainly through reading and summarizing the existing literature to explain the relationship between episodic memory and sleep. A large amount of literature on Google scholar shows that sleep plays an important role in consolidating episodic memories, and gives experiments and evidence to support this idea. The study found that slow-wave sleep is an important period for memory consolidation, and that different stages of sleep also play a part in the memory consolidation process. Various experiments have demonstrated the important link between sleep and episodic memory storage, which means that memory quality is closely related to sleep. This paper also contains two hypotheses for the process of memory Consolidation: the "Active System Consolidation Hypothesis" and the "Synaptic Homeostasis Hypothesis". In the course of research, we haven't seen much literature supporting the existence of episodic memory in animals, but they do have memories that look a lot like episodic memory, which most scientists call "episodic-like memory."