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"Sleep helped," Born said… . "The important … problem.”

Pierre Maquet and Perrine Ruby of the University of Liege in Belgium

The researchers divided the volunteers into two groups, half were allowed to sleep after the training while the remainder were forced to stay awake. Born and his team noticed that the group that had slept after the training were twice as likely to figure out the third rule as the other group. "Sleep helped," Born said in a telephone interview. "The important thing is that you have to have a memory representation in your brain of the problem you want to solve and then you sleep, so it can act on the problem." But Born admitted that he and his team don't know how restructuring of memories occurs or what governs it. Pierre Maquet and Perrine Ruby of the University of Liege in Belgium said the experimental evidence supports the anecdotal suggestions that sleep can stimulate creative thinking. They added, although the role of sleep in human creativity will still be a mystery, the research gives people good reason to fully respect their periods of sleep.
研究人员把志愿者分成两组，其中一组人在培训之后可以睡觉，另一组人则必须始终保持清醒。波恩和他的研究小组发现，在培训之后睡过觉的那部分人找到潜藏规则的几率比另一部分人高一倍。 “睡觉有很大好处，”波恩在电话采访中说道，“关键在于你脑中必须有一个对待解决的问题的记忆表述，这样大脑就能在睡梦中处理问题。”不过，波恩承认自己和同事都不知道大脑是怎样重构记忆的，也不清楚到底是什么在控制这一过程。比利时列日大学的皮埃尔•马基特和佩林•鲁比说，此次试验印证了一种非正式的看法，即睡眠可以促进创造性思维。他们补充说，尽管睡眠对人类创造力所起的作用仍将是一个谜，这次研究却提醒了人们要严格遵循自己的睡眠周期。