According to a Scottish study, resting only ten minutes after receiving new information is enough to remember it more accurately in the long term.
This will give you a good excuse to rest! According to a Scottish study published in the newspaper Nature Scientific Reports, a simple relaxation session would help strengthen his memory of details.
To come to this conclusion, Drs Michael Craig and Michaela Dewar of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh asked 60 volunteers in their 20s to look at a series of photos several times. Participants were asked to distinguish pictures that they had already been shown from others that looked very similar to them. It then appeared that those who had rested ten minutes after seeing the images for the first time were much better able to tell the difference.
Conclusion: “memories reappear during phases of rest when we are not busy absorbing new sensory information”, notes Michael Craig. And this process of assimilation would be all the more true when it comes to the small details.
Many studies have already proven the correlation between sleep and memory. Because, by slowing down the transmission of dopamine, sleep blocks our forgetting mechanisms. In addition, when we sleep, our synapses relax, maintaining our ability to learn. Conversely, a restless night impacts our ability to assimilate new information in the long term. Go, quickly, to the nap!
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