Why we remember: One student's journey into memory
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It's during sleep that our brains clean up that construction site, saving some memories and throwing out others. So his mom was right: Without enough sleep, the cleaning crew can't do its job. It also doesn't help, Amit says, that teens often let phones muddy their memory-making.

"When we experience life through a screen, hunting for the right filter, the perfect caption, we experience it halfway: half-online, half-distracted, half-present. And emotion is exactly what gives memories a better chance of sticking."

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