Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Memory

Don't you always remember the significant details and forget the minor ones in your life?
For example, you would remember that you had a party yesterday, but you'd forget who left before Anne. Well, on April 18, 2007 Jan Born and her research group discovered that long- term memories are formed while sleeping. This process relies on the brain replaying recent events during the night. The scientists also realized that sleeping not only strengthens your memory, but it also lets you remember the order that the events occurred. They even did an experiment to see if their results were really right. For the experiment a few students were asked to learn triplets of words one after another. The next day they tested each student and only the ones that had slept were able to determine the order of the words. However, they could only remember when they recited them in a forward direction not a backwards one. In the end, every student needs at least 8-10 hours of sleep if they want to do well in school!

http://brightsurf.com/news/headlines/30003/Sleep_enforces_the_temporal_sequence_in_memory.html

2 comments:

butterfly said...

That is a very nice writing. I totally believe in what you have said. I even experienced it at lease once a week. You do need rest; I mean sleep for at least 8 hours.

Butterfly, you wrote this article but let me ask you, if you believe in it or wrote it just for the sake of writing.

Wonderful and informative article. Keep it up.

-Butterfly's Dad,

Anonymous said...

OMG!! your dad commented lols it's okkay my parents did too
anyways i really did like your article short and to the point
great job <33
and yeai definitely need that 8 hours of sleep!! z.zz.zz.z.zz.zzz.zzz...zzzzzz