Want Smart Kids Remembering Words? Give a Pretty Night Sleep

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When I was a child, the condition of a person's brain was in a period of growth. In other words, it's time to shape a person's brain in order to achieve the best performance. One way that can be done is to provide adequate hours of sleep for the child.

A recent study also revealed that sleep a night will help strengthen a child's memory, especially if the child is studying and memorizing some new vocabulary.

Even the most intelligent child could remember vocabulary better when given the opportunity to get adequate hours of sleep a night.

Whereas before many experts assume that children are much more intelligent sorting and remembering new vocabulary than adults because they are still in the stage of language development.

But a study involving children aged 7-12 showed that they apparently made ​​no difference to the parents, both linglungnya, especially when learning new things. Even from the results of studies it is known that children who master a word at breakfast can forget the other half in the afternoon.

Yet researchers found that amnesia in children was just going for a while. After 12 hours of rest, including sleep, they will return to considering a number of new vocabulary taught it.

This conclusion was obtained after a team of researchers from York University and Sheffield Hallam University spent weeks to train 53 students' proficiency from three boarding schools in North Yorkshire from dawn until late at breakfast.

Within 30-60 minutes per day, participants were given a vocabulary similar to fib actual vocabulary but is as unique as possible for research purposes.

Some participants were given a new vocabulary in the morning and were tested on the same day 12 hours later, a time when many participants who have forgotten most of what they learned.

But surprisingly most of the other participants were given a new vocabulary in the evening and asked to remember it the next morning just do your job better. In addition, participants were taught and tested on the same day and forget the new vocabulary taught vocabulary can recall it after a nights sleep.

"Many people think that children do not need to sleep, they are the experts to learn new vocabulary as they do it all the time. Moreover, the study of children previously assumed that learning occurs directly but said the new study suggests the opposite, it turned out to be a learning process going on longer than expected, "said Anna Weighall, one team of researchers from Sheffield Hallam psychology.

"More than that, researchers also know that children use the same language learning mechanism with adults. So when you learn a number of words and tested after sleep then you will remember more words than if you tested that day," said Dr. . Weighall as quoted by the Daily Mail, Sunday (25/11/2012).

And probably a lot of people think sleep will make you forget everything but otherwise sleep to protect the insights you gain just so you can remember it better the next day.

Agree with that, Dr. Lisa Henderson of the Department of Psychology, York University adds, "Children's ability to remember and recognize the new vocabulary will increase approximately 12 hours after the vocabulary was given, but that will only happen if the child sleeping first. Remarkably, the effect could last up to one week later or in other words, new vocabulary will be embedded in long-term memory. "

The study, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and published in the journal Developmental Science can also help overcome neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and dyslexia in which they are often associated with poor sleep quality and problems in language learning.

Source:  Daily Mail