Many Soviet schoolchildren were advised by their parents to memorize poetry and complex formulas just at night. And more often than not, the method worked: the child woke up and remembered everything! Scientists have figured out the reason for this phenomenon only now.
American experts have conducted a number of studies and found that when we sleep, our brain does not sleep.
The area called the hippocampus, which is responsible for the transition of short-term memory to long-term, is very awake and transmits impulses to the cerebral cortex.
And it turns out that while we are sleeping sweetly, the hippocampus is working with might and main, transforming the events that happened to us during the day into long-term memories, which, in turn, are “recorded” by the cerebral cortex.
That is why children who learned something not in the morning or afternoon, but at night, remember everything!
It turns out that our mothers and grandmothers solved the secret of memories a long time ago, but they just didn’t brag about it.