sleeping shortly after learning new information improves retention

At 24 hr retest, with all subjects having received both a full night of sleep and a full day of wakefulness, we found that memory was superior when sleep occurred shortly after learning rather than following a full day of wakefulness.

Source: PLoS ONE: Memory for Semantically Related and Unrelated Declarative Information: The Benefit of Sleep, the Cost of Wake

added 2012-03-25T22:15:45Z by anders

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