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A good night's sleep is all it takes to bolster your memory, a team of scientists has found. Not only does it help strengthen your memory, it can help you recall memories you thought you had lost for good, they say... |
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| Sleep Makes your Memory Better (October 2003) |
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To test the effect of sleep on memory, Dan Margoliash and a team at the University of Chicago trained students to recognise words spoken from a speech synthesiser. The machine had been set up to make words such as dog, cat and big almost, but not quite, incomprehensible. After a training session in the morning the students were, on average, 20% better at recognising the garbled words than they were before training. But Professor Margoliash found that when the same students were tested later in the day, their memories had started to fail them. "They were only half as good later in the day," he said... |
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