Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Sleep on It-How Snoozing Makes you Smarter
KEY CONCEPTS
* As we snooze, our brain is busily processing the information we have learned during the day.
* Sleep makes memories stronger, and it even appears to weed out irrelevant details and background information so that only the important pieces remain.
* Our brain also works during slumber to find hidden relations among memories and to solve problems we were working on while awake.
Full Story at Scientific American Mind
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