The Memory Consolidation Theory posits that sleep is crucial for consolidating memories formed during wakefulness by actively processing and stabilizing newly acquired information during REM and slow-wave sleep (SWS) phases, transferring it from short-term to long-term memory stores, according to Sridhar et al. (2023).

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