Sleep is an important part of a human’s life; it rejuvenates our energy levels, helps with mental processing, and lastly helps with memory and memory retention. Memories are essential any living being. Remembering where the car keys are or remembering meaningful thoughts are what help us connect ideas, thoughts, or things together. Therefore, if we study the connections of sleep and memory this could improve the way we retain information. That there are other variable that could help improve the way we learn new things. There have been a lot of studies that have shown how important sleep is to any living animal, but now would be the best time to connect and manipulate the effects of sleep and how sleep could improve memory.
This leads us to researchers Bäuml, Holterman and Abel (2014). They explained how sleeping after learning can lead to mnemonic benefit, which is a device that helps with retention of information, by stabilizing and strengthening …show more content…
How they designed this study was to have the participants that were in this sample were split into two groups, they were either reported to earl night condition or to a late night condition. In the early sleep condition the participants learned the task between learning two class times. They then had to go into retrieval phase between another two time periods to test the delay task recall. In the late sleep condition the participants slept for three hours before learning phase, and then a three hour retention interval of REM sleep- dominated sleep followed. The retrieval phase took place much later in the test. The results revealed that superior retention for negative or neutral pictures only after the late REM sleep-rich retention interval, whereas no such difference was detected after early slow wave
This leads us to researchers Bäuml, Holterman and Abel (2014). They explained how sleeping after learning can lead to mnemonic benefit, which is a device that helps with retention of information, by stabilizing and strengthening …show more content…
How they designed this study was to have the participants that were in this sample were split into two groups, they were either reported to earl night condition or to a late night condition. In the early sleep condition the participants learned the task between learning two class times. They then had to go into retrieval phase between another two time periods to test the delay task recall. In the late sleep condition the participants slept for three hours before learning phase, and then a three hour retention interval of REM sleep- dominated sleep followed. The retrieval phase took place much later in the test. The results revealed that superior retention for negative or neutral pictures only after the late REM sleep-rich retention interval, whereas no such difference was detected after early slow wave