Take a Break, Boost Your Memory
Listen up workaholics. You can take a break and feel good about it, not guilty. If you want to strengthen your memory, take a break after learning new information, according to New York University researchers who found such “active rest” strengthens memory.
Sleep has been studied and found as a valuable way to preserve memories, but less is known about how “active rest” during the day may affect them. So, the memory of 16 study participants was tested and evaluated the effect of rest on memory.
Researchers showed participants some images, each one pairing a face and an object. For example, they looked at a “surfer dude” and a beach ball and were asked how likely the person was to be holding that object. After that they rested. They found that the brain regions remained active during rest. So they gave the test again after rest.
“The subjects who had greater correlations between the two brain areas [during rest] had better associative memory,” Davachi said. “They remembered the face that went with the object [better].”
Last Updated on February 2nd, 2010
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