A recent study revealed that getting enough sleep at night stimulates the brain greatly to store new expressions or vocabulary that one has learned during the day.
A study prepared by researcher Matt Davis from the University of Cambridge’s Research Council for Medicine, Cognition and Brain Sciences and published a summary of her newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, showed that sleep is essential because it helps the brain store new words that deal with fictitious subjects or things in the same way that it saves familiar words.
Davis said that the volunteers who participated in the study and who were asked to learn words describing imaginary things or accidents before going to sleep were more able to remember them compared to their counterparts who were asked to do the same task after hours after learning the same words.
The researcher considered the result of this study encouraging, and said that parents who read the stories for their children before bed or read the novels or stories that they love, may increase the amount of vocabulary or words stored in their memory, which contributes to get rid of the weak vocabulary.
Davis advised students to study before bed to store the necessary information that might help them pass exams.
The brain scans of 16 out of 57 people who participated in the study showed that the part responsible for memory in their brains witnessed more activity than other parts during deep sleep.
Author: Steav168