Employees of Swansea University in the UK found that the human brain selects and sorts the most important for each individual person information during sleep.
Due to this it is firmly fixed in long-term memory.
Scientists have conducted a scientific experiment involving 80 volunteers. All of them are English students and their main goal at the time was to study the Welsh language. Participants were divided into two groups: the first were taught new words in the course of the working day, and the second – before bedtime. The result quickly master new knowledge to those students who studied the language just before bedtime, as well as those that set specific goals for mastering a new language.
Previously it was thought that during sleep, the human brain collects all the information received during the day. Now scientists have proved that the period of assimilation of new knowledge depends on their importance.
