Friday, April 23, 2010

Dream A Little Dream Of Recall


From Science News:

Nap-time reveries may show that sleeping brain is making memories.

People who have nap-time dreams about a task that they’ve just practiced get a big memory boost on the task upon awakening, Harvard researchers report.

Those who dream about anything else have no such enhanced recall, the team reports in a paper published online April 22 in Current Biology. Neither do those who stay awake, even if they think about the task.

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