Damian is meeting with his psychology study group to discuss why we sleep and how sleep has a role in learning and memory.Which student's view is consistent with the work of Tononi and Cirelli (2014)?
A) Damian argues that sleep allows the neurotransmitters to be re-packaged in their synaptic vesicles.
B) Thanh says that sleep allows individual brain areas to process information without input from other brain areas.
C) Haru posits that sleep allows for more creative problem solving because we're not bound by the rules of logic.
D) Dagmar believes that sleep allows the brain to re-establish synaptic homeostasis.

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Tononi and Cirelli's work focuses on the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis of sleep, which posits that sleep allows the brain to rebalance synapses and strengthen important connections while weakening others. Therefore, Dagmar's view that sleep allows the brain to re-establish synaptic homeostasis is consistent with their work.

Damian Is Meeting with His Psychology Study Group to Discuss