The way to take advantage of this is to expose yourself to new sensory information through experience during the day -- such as photoreading a new book or practicing a new physical skill -- then allow yourself at least eight hours of deep sleep. When you wake up, your brain will have organized the information, giving you a new of understanding of what you experienced the day before.
The human brain is, no doubt, absolutely astounding!
- If you want to pass an exam, be sure to get some good sleep before-hand.
- Because in sleep the brain processes and consolidates newly learnt matter.
- Like football fans raising their hands in unison during a Mexican wave, millions of individual brain cells respond simultaneously with an electric signal.
- They thus generate the regular, low-frequency brain waves that are characteristic of deep sleep.
- Slow brain waves appear to consolidate and reinforce freshly learnt matter, explains Reto Huber, who conducted the study at the University of Wisconsin laboratory of Giulio Tononi in Madison, USA.
- The subjects first had to accomplish a learning test on a computer.