Monday, July 27, 2015

Sleep can make us remember things we forgot – Swedish Radio

Previously, scientists have known that we remember things better if we sleep well. But now new research shows that sleep can make us remember things we have forgotten.

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John Axelsson is a sleep researcher at the Karolinska Institute.
– Now, research shows that it’s not just so that sleep helps us to stabilize the memories, but they also give us access to the memories we knew that we had from the beginning, he says.

Positive for many
There are researchers in England have found out this. They noticed that several people who had been learning different words, and could not remember them, often came to the words after they got to sleep.

This is positive for many says sleep researcher John Axelsson.
– This is an important issue for basic research into how memory works and how we learn things. But even if one is to help people who have memory problems, says John Axelsson.

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