{"id":487,"date":"2021-08-10T04:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/?page_id=487"},"modified":"2021-08-10T05:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:10:44","slug":"study-shows-how-taking-short-breaks-may-help-our-brains-learn-new-skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/reference\/study-shows-how-taking-short-breaks-may-help-our-brains-learn-new-skills","title":{"rendered":"Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Consolidation-of-human-skill-linked-to-waking-hippocampo-neocortical-replay.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Consolidation-of-human-skill-linked-to-waking-hippocampo-neocortical-replay.png 684w, https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Consolidation-of-human-skill-linked-to-waking-hippocampo-neocortical-replay-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rest, replay, and skill learning<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a study of healthy volunteers, NIH researchers discovered that our brains may replay compressed memories of learning new skills when we rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\uff0aNIH : National Institutes of Health (\u7c73)\u56fd\u7acb\u885b\u751f\u7814\u7a76\u6240<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDuring the early part of the learning curve we saw that wakeful rest replay was compressed in time, frequent, and a good predictor of variability in learning a new skill across individuals,\u201d said Dr. Buch. \u201cThis suggests that during wakeful rest the brain binds together the memories required to learn a new skill.\u201d<br><br>&#8230;<br><br>The program helped them discover that a much faster version \u2013 about 20 times faster &#8211; of the brain activity seen during typing was replayed during the rest periods. Over the course of the first eleven practice trials, these compressed versions of the activity were replayed many times &#8211; about 25 times &#8211; per rest period. This was two to three times more often than the activity seen during later rest periods or after the experiments had ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, they found that the frequency of replay during rest predicted memory strengthening. In other words, the subjects whose brains replayed the typing activity more often showed greater jumps in performance after each trial than those who replayed it less often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<br><br>As expected, the team discovered that the replay activity often happened in the sensorimotor regions of the brain, which are responsible for controlling movements. However, they also saw activity in other brain regions, namely the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.<br><br>\uff0asensorimotor regions \u611f\u899a\u904b\u52d5\u9818\u57df<br>\uff0ahippocampus \u6d77\u99ac<br>\uff0aentorhinal cortex \u55c5\u5185\u76ae\u8cea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u00a0\u201cOverall, our results support the idea that manipulating replay activity during waking rest may be a powerful tool that researchers can use to help individuals learn new skills faster and possibly facilitate rehabilitation from stroke.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/pdf\/S2211-1247(21)00539-8.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/pdf\/S2211-1247(21)00539-8.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninds.nih.gov\/News-Events\/News-and-Press-Releases\/Press-Releases\/Study-shows-how-taking-short-breaks-may-help-our-brains\">https:\/\/www.ninds.nih.gov\/News-Events\/News-and-Press-Releases\/Press-Releases\/Study-shows-how-taking-short-breaks-may-help-our-brains<\/a><br>Tuesday, June 8, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rest, replay, and skill learning In a study of healthy volunteers, NIH researchers discovered that our brains  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"protect_children":false,"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","vkExUnit_sitemap":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","_exclude_from_list_pages":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","vkExUnit_childPageIndex":"","vkExUnit_pageList_ancestor":"on","_lightning_design_setting":{"layout":"default"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-487","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions\/507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yandcompany.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}