Current scientific hypotheses regarding the function of sleep include neural maturation, facilitation of learning or memory, targeted erasure of synapses to forget unimportant information, cognition, clearance of metabolic waste products generated by neural activity, and conservation of metabolic energy.

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  Physiology, Sleep Stages - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf - NIH

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• cognition concept