The Relationship Between Your Memory And Sleep
A recent sleep study has found that both the quality and quantity of our sleep plays a key role in determining what we remember - and what we forget. Research teams at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston College discovered that a good night’s help to preserve and enhance memories that hold the greatest emotional significance while at the same time editing out the unimportant background details. One more reason that getting proper sleep is essential for your health.
According to one of the study’s leaders, “This tells us that sleep’s role in emotional memory preservation is more than just mechanistic,” says the study’s first author Jessica Payne, PhD, a Harvard University research fellow in the Division of Psychiatry at BIDMC. “In order to preserve what it deems most important, the brain makes a tradeoff, strengthening the memory’s emotional core and obscuring its neutral background.”
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