so during the night the patterns move back and forth like a swing. we push that swing when it s up so that it will continue to swing and swing longer. and that enhances the processes of memory consolidation or the reactivation of memory traces in the hippocampus and it transfers to the cortex which. after. the subject is tested right after she wakes out she will be asked to recall the word pairs that she memorized the night before. the subjects can usually remember fifteen out of a total of eighteen pants but when their memory has been stimulated by odio impulses they can remember twenty five this test prompted the researches to conduct