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阅读理解 1 第二十八篇 Sleep Lets Brain File Memories 睡眠促使记忆归档存储 To sleep. Perchance to file? Findings published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences further进一步 support the theory that the brain organizes and stows memories formed整理 during the day while the rest of the body is catching zzzs. 睡觉，说不定就是在整理归类记忆？刊登在最近网上出版的国家科学院文献汇编上的新发现 进一步证明了这个理论：当人体的其他部分在鼾声中安眠时，人体大脑就在整理和储存着天形成的记忆。 Gyorgy Buzsaki of Rutgers University5 and his colleagues analyzed the brain waves of sleeping rats and mice. Specifically特别的, they examined检查 the electrical activity活动emanating from6 the somatosensory neocortex (an area that processes处理 sensory information) and the hippocampus, which is a center for learning and memory. The scientists found that oscillations in brain waves from the two regions地区 appear to be好像 intertwined错综复杂的. So-called sleep spindles (bursts爆炸 of activity活动 from the neocortex) were followed tens of milliseconds later by beats in the hippocampus known as ripples. The team posits假设 that this interplay相互影响 between the two brain regions is a key step in memory consolidation巩固. A second study, also published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, links age-associated联系 memory decline衰退 to high glucose葡萄糖 levels. 类国新泽西州立大学的乔治? Buzsaki和他的同事们分析了睡眠中的老鼠和田鼠的脑电波。他们特别研究了发源于学习记忆中心——大脑知觉新皮层（处理知觉信息的区域）和海马状的电流活动。科学家们发现，这两个区域的脑电波变化仿佛处于交织状态。而数十毫秒后海马状突起发出的波动将紧跟所谓的睡眠纺锤体（新皮层上的种种活动）。这对科学家们假设这两个大脑区 域的互动是理解增强记忆的关键。接下来的研究，同样也是刊登在这周网上出版的国家科学院文献汇编中，是关于与年龄相关的由于葡萄糖浓度过高引起的记忆衰退。 Previous research had shown that individuals个人 with diabetes suffer忍受 from increased memory problems. In the new work, Antonio Convit of New York University School of Medicine and his collaborators合作者 studied 30 people whose average平均 age was 69 to investigate调查 whether sugar levels, which tend to倾向increase with age, affect memory in healthy people as well. The scientists administered11 recall回忆 tests, brain scans扫描 and glucose tolerance忍受 tests, which measure how quickl