<p>Neuroscientists have established in recent decades the idea that some of each day&rsquo;s experiences are converted by the brain into permanent memories during sleep the same night. Now, a new study proposes a mechanism that determines which memories are tagged as important enough to linger in the brain until sleep makes them permanent.</p>

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