The authors of the University of Washington (USA) argue that people who sleep after processing and storing a memory best achieve their goals than those who want to execute your plan before a good rest. The study results were published in the journal Psychological Science.
Michael Scullin, senior author studies the prospective memory. In contrast to retrospective memory, which is to remember what happened, prospective memory is used to account for future projects, ie activities that a person wants to do later. These tasks range from making a choice to buy a gift or go to the grocery store before going home.
Scullin said that much research about retrospective memory, prospective memory but has a lower level of analysis, although people use it daily.
REST AND REMEMBRANCE
In their study, the researchers found that sleep facilitates the execution of the tasks ahead. They explained that the ability to fulfill an intention seems not to depend on the strength of the intention but the trigger that recalls the work must be met. This trigger can be a situation, place or circumstance that brings to mind the plan to perform.
For example, if a man should say something to a colleague the next day at work will see the main trigger to remember what you have to comment. But there are also triggers weaker. In this case, go through the conference room where the two met at another time could also bring the memory of the message being transmitted.
Scullin said that sleep acts on these triggers weak, strengthening partnership and thus facilitating compliance with the intent. On the contrary, sleep is not strengthened the relationship between activity and trigger more explicit. "We found that sleep benefits prospective memory by strengthening the weak associations in the brain, a fact that had not been tested before," he said Scullin.
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