In the latest issue of Scientific American Mind, Robert Stickgold and Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen have written an article on sleep. They claim, "During slumber, our brain engages in data analysis, from strengthening memories to solving problems."
Key Concepts from the article:
- As we snooze, our brain is busily processing the information we have learned during the day.
- Sleep makes memories stronger, and it even appears to weed out irrelevant details and background information so that only the important pieces remain.
- Our brain also works during slumber to find hidden relations among memories and to solve problems we were working on while awake.
You can read the full article online at: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-snoozing-makes-you-smarter
