What is the important role that sleep plays with learning and memory,according to Tononi and Cirelli (2014)?
A) Sleep allows neurotransmitters to be recycled.
B) Sleep decreases cortical synaptic strength.
C) Sleep restores homeostatic imbalance, so the brain is ready to fire the next day.
D) Sleep prevents brain areas from sharing information and allows each area to process its own information.

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Tononi and Cirelli (2014) proposed the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis, which suggests that sleep decreases cortical synaptic strength, allowing for the consolidation of learning and memory by downscaling synapses to a baseline level.

What Is the Important Role That Sleep Plays with Learning