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Monday, 22 February 2010 14:47
An Afternoon Nap Improves Learning Capacity
I'm sure you are all well aware that students do not learn as well in afternoon lessons. Why this happens is a bit clearer now, thanks to a new study by Matthew Walker and his colleagues from the University of Berkley. They also suggest that If you want to improve your ability to learn in the afternoon, you should have a siesta during your lunch break.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 13:07
Circadian Rhythms Disrupted By High Fat Diet
If you are studying the "Biological Rhythms, Sleep and Dreaming" option for the A2 Psychology Unit 4 exam, you may be interested in some new research that appears to show that the type of diet a person eats can disrupt their circadian rhythms.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:27
Sleep Consolidates Learning of Complex Tasks
A new study which sheds light on some of the functions of sleep has been published in the journal Learning and Memory. According to the research sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks and helps people recover learning they otherwise thought they had forgotten over the course of a day.
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 12:57
Circadian Rhythms Are Crucial For Memory
The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more than just that simple timekeeping task, according to Stanford researchers.
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Monday, 22 September 2008 17:40
Sweet Smelling Dreams
Many years ago Dement and Wolpert (1958) sprayed sleeping participants with water and found that they dreamed of waterfalls and leaky roofs. Now new research has shown that what you smell as you sleep has the power to influence your dreams. The research was presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO in Chicago.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 11:02
Functions of Sleep
A study published this week in PLoS Biology by Chiara Cirelli and Giulio Tononi addresses the question "what are the functions of sleep?"
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 17:56
Biological Rhythms: Light Receptors in the Eye Play Important Role in Setting Circadian Rhythms
A2 Psychology students taking the Unit 4 option "Biological Rhythms, Sleep and Dreaming" may be interested that biologists at the University of Virginia have discovered a switching
mechanism in the eye that plays a key role in regulating the sleep/wake
cycles in mammals.
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:12
Sleep Helps to Preserve Emotionally Significant Details in Memory
New research examining the function of sleep has revealed that one function of sleep may be to consolidate memories of the emotionally important aspects of events.
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