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What to listen to while sleeping to make you smarter?

Pump up the pink noise The researchers found that when older adults listened to pink noise, their deep, slow-wave sleep improved, and then they scored three times higher on a memory test the next day compared to how they performed after receiving false treatment.

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What you do before going to bed (or tucking in for a nap!) can make all the difference in your brain power. These are the simple tweaks that can sharpen your mind. Simply getting enough sleep will grant you better focus the next day, reports the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke : Slumber helps the brain form new neural connections and consolidate memories. But you can enhance your sleep the same way you enhance your meals with greens and healthy spices: By following these tips tonight, you can ensure you’ll be at your sharpest tomorrow.

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Pump up the pink noise

You’ve heard that white noise (like the light sound of a ceiling fan) is one small change you can make to catch more Zzzs. But pink noise, in which lower frequency sounds are more powerful—like the rush of a waterfall or pounding rain—may boost your brain, according to a study published in 2017 in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The researchers found that when older adults listened to pink noise, their deep, slow-wave sleep improved, and then they scored three times higher on a memory test the next day compared to how they performed after receiving false treatment. “Most people won’t notice much difference between white noise, pink noise, and brown noise except that pink noise has more of a ‘hiss’ sound and brown noise has more of a ‘shush’ sound, with white noise in the middle,” says Michael Grandner, PhD, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “All of these work well at absorbing environmental sounds, but pink noise may have the ability to specifically induce brain wave patterns that enhance sleep, even though it is usually less able to filter out lower-frequency sounds and most patients report that it is less pleasant to fall asleep to.” Want to try it for yourself? Download a pink noise app and hit the sheets, or check out these sleep sound machines for a good night’s sleep.

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