Scientists: sleep, to remember

Sleep helps to remember new information proved by scientists from the University of Luebeck in Germany.

The results of a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience shows that the brain is better at remembering if you do not miss while you sleep. In the experiment, 24 volunteers took part, which showed 15 pairs of images of animals and household items with a request to remember them.

After 40 minutes, half the participants showed slightly altered image. The other half of the participants at this time asleep. At the end of the experiment, both groups again suggested that the first cards with images, offering to find them.

The experimental results showed that the group who slept during the experiment, showed much better results in remembering - an average of 85 percent versus 65 percent among those who had not slept.

"The processing of memories is quite different during sleep or bodrostvovaniya - says lead researcher Susanna Dikelmann. - Based on the results of the study, we assume that the transfer of information from the hippocampus to the new cerebral cortex occurs in the first few minutes of sleep. "

Only after 40 minutes of sleep most of the information received "is loaded and stored in a part of the brain where it can not be broken by new flows of information, encoded in the hippocampus.

The hippocampus - a brain region responsible for memorizing. Studies in the U.S., show the same results when studying the impact of sleep on long-term memory. Conclusion: to remember all, we must not learn of sleepless nights, and sleep.