Study finds that scent may aid memory

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Study finds that scent may aid memory
Topic Started: Mar 9 2007, 11:50 PM (56 Views)
Evil	Mar 9 2007, 11:50 PM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 3,003 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: October 31, 2006	Quote: Scientists studying how sleep affects memory have found that the whiff of a familiar scent can help a slumbering brain better remember things that it learned the evening before. The smell of roses — delivered to people's nostrils as they studied and, later, as they slept — improved their performance on a memory test by about 13 percent. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/09/news/sleep.php



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