A new U.S. study showed that sleep reduces the errors that may fall out of memory. The magazine quoted “Learning and Memory” results of a study by the University of Michigan, U.S., has shown that sleep reduces the errors that may fall out of memory when the young and the elderly. According to the Kimberley Fein, which is an associate professor of psychology, that the practical applications of these findings include all of the students who choose the wrong answer in the exam to the elderly who are mistaken in their medicines.

She added “This study suggests that after sleeping able to distinguish the erroneous impressions in the memory.” Previous studies have confirmed that sleep improves memory, but this new study, dealing with errors in memory. The study included a group of university students who have different levels of sleep, and listened to a group of words, and after 12 hours, heard the words separately and asked them to identify any of the words they heard before. It was found that students who were sleeping well, had problems with memory less, and chose the minimum number of words wrong.