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Sleep has many functions, including facilitating learning. Now a study finds that when we acquire new information and how soon we sleep after that may affect our attention of the info. That's according to research in the journal, "Public Library of Science One". Scientists had more than 200 subjects memorize related words like "fire" and "smoke" or unrelated word pairs like "insect" and "truth". The researchers tested these subjects ability to remember the pairs after thirty minutes, twelve hours, or twenty-four hours. Sleep had little affect on the ability to recall related words, but subjects who slept between tests were significantly better at remembering the unrelated words than those who got no shut-eye. But here's the most interesting finding: In the twenty-four hour retest, where all subjects had a full night of sleep, those participants who went to bed shortly after learning the words did much better than those who went through an entire day before sleeping. And this leg up on memory was maintained on subsequent days. So, if you need to remember something, try reviewing those notes just before bedtime instead of watching another rerun of Seinfeld you've already memorized.

Sleep has many functions, including facilitating learning. Now a study finds that when we acquire new information and how soon we sleep after that may affect our retention of the info. That's according to research in the journal, "Public Library of Science One". Scientists had more than 200 subjects memorize related words like "fire" and "smoke" or unrelated word pairs like "insect" and"truth". The researchers tested these subjects' ability to remember the pairs after thirty minutes, twelve hours, or twenty-four hours. Sleep had little affect on the ability to recall related words, but subjects who slept between tests were significantly better at remembering the unrelated words than those who got no shut-eye. But here's the most interesting finding: In the twenty-four hour retest, where all subjects had a full night of sleep, those participants who went to bed shortly after learning the words did much better than those who went through an entire day before sleeping. And this leg up on memory was maintained on subsequent days. So, if you need to remember something, try reviewing those notes just before bedtime instead of watching another rerun of Seinfeld you've already memorized.