Taking a break helps you remember better

Scientists claim that taking a break after learning something will help you remember it better.

Comfortable psychology helps to absorb lessons more effectively.

Scientists already know that sleep helps reinforce memory by allowing our brain to analyze and refine newly acquired knowledge and organize them into memory.

But recent research shows that even taking breaks while staying alert can help organize and store information.

The findings of New York University appear in the latest issue of the Journal of Neuron extending our understanding of how to improve memory.

It may also help explain why we can remember some complicated detailed knowledge but forget about other information almost immediately.

Dr. Lila Davachi, Associate Professor of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience at New York University said: 'A little break after school can really help you retain the knowledge you have just learned.' .

To determine whether memory consolidation occurs during recess when awake or not, the researchers observed some areas that play an important role in memory retention in the brain as the horizon. code and cortical region.

An experiment entitled "The brain wants you to ignore some of the tasks so you can put in memory what you've just learned" checked the memory associated by giving the subjects an experiment a pair of images consisting of a human face and an object such as a ball, or a human face and a landscape such as a beach; then break time in a state of alertness.

Experimental subjects are not informed that their memories of the images they see will be checked; instead, they are instructed to rest and just think about whatever they want, but remain alert during their break.

The researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity during the observations of objects and during rest periods afterwards.

Researchers found that during recess, the areas of the brain remained as they were when they looked at the sample.

In subsequent experiments also showed that the greater the correlation between break and study, the higher the chance of remembering.

Dr. Davachi said: "Your brain is working for you while you rest, so resting is important for memory and cognitive function. This is something we don't care about. , especially when information technology today makes us work continuously. "

Researchers have discovered that our minds only store memories for one day, but at night it acts as a movie editor, browsing through the segments before moving the best segments. into the long-term memory store.

Human and mouse tests showed that the memory was first stored in the hippocampus, a part shaped like a walrus in the central brain, before it was "replayed" and put into martial arts. The external brain is also called the gray matter region.