A 10-minute rest can boost memory like sleep

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3055, 2016, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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  • It seems that resting in a quiet room for 10 minutes without distractions can boost one's ability to remember new information. "A lot of people think the brain is a muscle that needs to be continually stimulated, but perhaps that's not the best way," says Michaela Dewar at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. To store them long-term, new memories must be consolidated, a process thought to happen while one is sleep. But at least some consolidation may occur while one is awake, says Dewar. In 2012, her team found that people who had a 10-minute rest after hearing a story remembered 10 per cent more of it a week later than those who played a spot-the-difference game immediately afterwards