German scientists now proved the old saying that consulting one’s pillow is helping to find a solution.
In the course of a sleep research, the German neuroscientist as well as sleep- and memory researcher Jan Born and his team from the neuroendocrinology of the University of Lübeck, Germany, have presented numerical series to the participants. In these series, hidden structures had to be discovered.
The participants were divided into three groups: the first group was allowed to sleep a night after thinking about the task, the second group was not allowed to sleep and the third group thought about the series in the morning and then eight hours later. When sitting in front of the series for the second time, group # 1 found twice as much solutions than groups # 2 and # 3. And this in spite the fact, that group # 3 has not been overtired!
The reason for that is in the structure of the human memory. “New impressions, experiences and learned things are stored temporarily in the hippocampus. They get reactivated during sleep and then are sent to the cerebral cortex. Here, the new knowledge is linked with the long-term-memory”, explains Jan Born.
This new organization of fresh memory contents leads Born to the conclusion that problems of the previous day are clearer after waking up. Out of this reason, it is much easier to find a solution!
Source: http://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Wissen/Uebersicht/Studie-zeigt-Mensch-lernt-tatsaechlich-im-Schlaf
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