So after a few drinks, you stop taking in any new information, which means anything you learned earlier in the day has more chance to take root.

因此，小酌几杯后，你的大脑就停止吸收新信息了，因此你之前所学的的内容就更有机会深植于脑海。

"The theory is that the hippocampus – the brain area really important in memory – switches to consolidating memories, transferring from short into longer-term memory," says Morgan.

研究者摩根说：“这是因为海马——脑中主管记忆的区域——转而开始巩固记忆，将短期记忆转换为长期记忆。”

In other words a session on the booze means the hippocampus has no new information to encode, so it busies itself with encoding older information instead.

换句话说，酒精使得海马去没有新信息可以用来进行编码，因此它转而去编码旧信息。.

The researchers are keen to stress that the study should only be considered in the context of what we already know about alcohol: that too much of it can seriously harm your memory and health over the long term.

研究们不断强调这一研究只是基于我们对酒精的固有认知，即长期饮酒过量会损害记忆和健康。

Another point the team makes is that sleep may have had some impact on locking in memories overnight, something which future studies could look into.

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