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research from Dussedorf University, on Germany, suggest that quick naps could improve performance in memory tests.
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agreement to the study publicated in New
Scientist Magazine, volunteers that had six minutes of rest obtained best results in remembering words.
The scientists evaluate that the rest ultra-short could initiate the process of the memory on brain.
The team leadered by the scientist Olaf Lahl affirms that is possible that the moment that people fall asleep could be capable to unleash a process in brain that is mantained, independent of the time that people stay awake.
"This shows at first time that a episode of ultrashort nap gives a big improvement im memory", wrote Lahl in New Scientist.
Deep sleep
The scientist team of Dusseldorf University concocated a group of students and asked that they memorize a set of words. After, the volunteers had a break of one hour before a test, that they would have to remember the words. During the break, some of the students had permission to sleep during close to six minutes. The rest of them had to stay awake. As they get awake, the students that had the nap had better results on the test.
Caution
Ten of another studies analised the relation between sleep and memory and presented traces that the natural cicle of sleep and vigil has an important paper in this process. Theories suggest that memory processment occures during deeo sleep, one phasis that normaly don''y starts until the person had completed 20 minutes of sleep. The teacher Jim Horne, of the Sleep
Research Center of Loughborough University, on the UK, says that the german research is interesting, but it''s important to have caution related to this discovery, affirmate Horne.
"There''s lots of proves that memory processment probably occure with more than six minutes of sleep", says the researcher.