{"id":41719,"date":"2026-03-27T17:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41719"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:54:08","slug":"erin-wamsley-quoted-in-time-about-memory-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/erin-wamsley-quoted-in-time-about-memory-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Wamsley quoted in TIME about memory and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/03\/27\/take-a-break-new-information-brain\/\">TIME<\/a> magazine article, Furman University cognitive neuroscientist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/erin-j-wamsley\/\">Erin Wamsley<\/a> argues that less is more when it comes to retaining newly acquired information. The story explores the glut of mostly digital content our society is exposed to &#8211; about 12 hours per day according to some estimates &#8211; and how the brain needs &#8220;offline states&#8221; so it can revisit recent material and process the information.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\">\u201cPeople are generally not aware that their brain is doing something very important when they\u2019re not doing anything,\u201d said Wamsley, an associate professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/psychology\">Department of Psychology<\/a>. \u201cBut this offline processing is a crucial aspect of memory.&#8221; And without mental downtime, our ability to recall and make sense of what we\u2019ve learned may suffer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TIME magazine story about memory and learning quotes Furman&#8217;s Wamsley, who pushes back on the idea that rest is a waste of time. Rather, &#8220;offline states&#8221; are necessary for memory consolidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,79,48,3522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-neuroscience","category-psychology","category-time-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41725,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41719\/revisions\/41725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}