Is There a Role for Pattern Separation during Sleep?

Sleep plays an important role in supporting long-term memory formation ([Diekelmann and Born, 2010][1]). Beyond preserving specific details from different events, sleep can facilitate the abstraction of generalities across events ([Ellenbogen et al., 2007][2]; [Lewis and Durrant, 2011][3]). Although

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