Memory game

Have an upcoming games night and looking to crush your opponents? Make sure you get your zzz’s.

A Washington University study that focused on 24 students found that the students who slept in between studying and taking a computer word game test performed very strongly on the test. The researchers speculate that during slow-wave sleep, the hippocampus takes recently learned memories and moves them over to the long-term storage area of the brain.

2 Comments July 2, 2010