Dr. Mark Salter, a consultant psychiatrist, told the BBC: "Baking and cooking are good therapies. They help patients develop planning skills, short-termmemories and social skills—lack of which may lead to mental illness."
Previous research has shown that fetuses can habituate to sounds and that the fetus has a short-term memory of 24-hours, but this study further examined how long these memories can last.
Getting a good night's sleep has long been known to cement the day's memories, moving them from short-term storage into long-term holding, but new research shows that it's not automatic.