{"id":14468,"date":"2022-01-25T23:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/?p=14468"},"modified":"2022-01-25T23:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:06:31","slug":"new-sleep-technique-boosts-face-name-matching-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/new-sleep-technique-boosts-face-name-matching-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sleep Technique Boosts Face-Name Matching Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you ever feel like you have a hard time recalling somebody\u2019s name or face? A recently published sleep study in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NPJ: Science of Learning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> might hold the solution\u2014<\/span><b>memory reactivation.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Undoubtedly, the ability to recognize other people by their face and name and associate the two is an essential skill for humans as social beings, even more so for those who work with a lot of people every day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As with every memory retention process, the face-name matching ability is highly dependent on sleep, particularly deep sleep. In this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41539-021-00119-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the research team from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northwestern University <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">found three major factors that determine this ability:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The use of targeted memory reactivation during sleep<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sleep duration<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The duration and quality of the N3 sleep stage (slow-wave sleep or SWS).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants were asked to memorize 80 face-name pairs during the study and recall them one day later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Put briefly, the results show that those who were exposed to targeted memory reactivation during their daily naps performed better than those who napped without an intervention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what does this technique consist of?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this case, it includes a recording of the names of the pairs read out loud while the participants were sleeping. Still, there was an additional detail\u2014background music, intended to activate the hippocampus, which plays a huge role in long-term memory storage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in addition to memory reactivation, acquiring sufficient uninterrupted deep sleep was also found to be the key condition for better face-name pairing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, aiding your sleep with a melatonin supplement or other effective, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/best-natural-sleep-aid\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">natural sleep aids<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is essential if you\u2019re trying to boost this skill.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s important here is that with this study, neuroscience finally gives a positive answer to the question\u2014is it possible to learn during sleep?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, if we can boost our facial and name recognition aptitude with this method, we can probably aid the storage of other information in a similar fashion. Certainly, there are many possibilities yet to explore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like you have a hard time recalling somebody\u2019s name or face? A recently published sleep study in the NPJ: Science of Learning might hold the solution\u2014memory reactivation.\u00a0 Undoubtedly, the ability to recognize other people by their face and name and associate the two is an essential skill for humans as social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}