hal@finney.org writes:
> If it is late in the evening, I have memories of the day's events, and
> also memories of the previous day's events. The former are somewhat
> sharper and more detailed, typically, which seems normal because they
> are more recent.
Yes. Many models of memory consolidation doesn't hinge on it being done in the sleep - it could be done when daydreaming, idling or just doing something which we don't think of. The people fond of correlating the theta rhythm in hippocampus with memory (I'm not :-) point out that it is present during some situations rather than others, which might suggest that we have two "modes".
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