Study Uncovers Memory Aid: A Scent During Sleep

topic posted Thu, March 8, 2007 - 7:49 PM by  Ralph

"Study Uncovers Memory Aid: A Scent During Sleep" - weird and awesome.... From the New York Times...

Scientists studying how sleep affects memory have found that the whiff of a familiar scent can help a slumbering brain better remember things that it learned the evening before. The smell of roses — delivered to people’s nostrils as they studied and, later, as they slept — improved their performance on a memory test by about 13 percent.

www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09...9sleep.html
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