Sleep crucial to protect your memories
Underlining the importance of sleep, a new study has found that sleeping not only protects memories from being forgotten, it also makes them easier to access. The findings suggest that after sleep we are more likely to recall facts which we could not remember while still awake. In two situations where subjects forgot information over the course of 12 hours of wakefulness, a night’s sleep was shown to promote access to memory traces that had initially been too weak to be retrieved. The research was done by scientists from the University of Exeter, UK, and the Basque Centre for Cognition, Brain and language (BCBl), Spain, and is published in Cortex. “Sleep doubles our chances of remembering previously unrecalled material. The post-sleep boost in memory accessibility may indicate that some memories are sharpened overnight. This supports the notion that, while asleep, we actively rehearse information flagged as important,” said Nicolas Dumay of the University of Exeter and BCBl.
Is your choice of oil making you fatIJ
According to scientists from the University of California, Riverside, a diet high in soybean oil may cause more obesity and diabetes than a diet high in fructose. Their study was published in the journal PlOS ONE on July 22. The obesity epidemic in the US is driving scientists to conduct more studies to determine precisely what causes this public health hazard. Specialists are focusing more than ever on fat, naturally, but also on fructose, a sugar commonly found in soda and processed foods. Also commonly found in processed foods, margarines, vinaigrettes and snacks is soybean oil. In the US, consumption of soybean oil has considerably increased over the last four decades.
Music Can Give You Orgasm: Study
Adding another attribute to the known power of music, a new study has suggested that musical notes can move some people so intensely that they feel like having an orgasm. The sensation, known as skin orgasm, produces a feeling of pleasure so intense it can be felt all over their body, can produce trembling, sweating and even arousal, Daily Mail reported. Wesleyan University psychologist professor Psyche loui and her co-researcher luke Harrison said skin orgasm was a “uniquely accurate description of the spectrum of musically induced emotional phenomena”. The researchers said the term “implies a pleasurable sensation that is paradoxically both universal and variable. It affects different parts of the body depending on the person and circumstances of induction, and retains similar sensory, evaluative, and affective biological and psychological components to sexual orgasm”.