If You Sleep After You Study, You'll Remember More—Duh?
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| Effective Studying in Action (Image from Flickr, by Mrehan) |
That sleep improves memory ought to be common sense knowledge, but apparently it is not, even after numerous studies have shown a strong correlation between sleep and memory (seePayne JD (2011) “Learning, memory and sleep in humans.” Sleep Medicine Clinics 6: 15–30 or Marshall L, Born J (2007) “The contribution of sleep to hippocampus-dependent memory consolidation.” Trends Cogn Sci 11: 442–450).
New research published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) suggests that sleeping right after studying improves a student's ability to remember information. Subjects looked at related