highlighting once again, the important of sleep

**kemist** · 03-18-2011, 10:13 AM

http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/...rain-to-learn/

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found compelling evidence that during dreamless, or non-REM, sleep bursts of brain waves known as “sleep spindles” may be networking between key regions of the brain to clear a path to learning. Findings are reported in the journal Current Biology.

**kemist** · 03-18-2011, 10:15 AM

...............................................^ importance*

**vaio** · 03-18-2011, 10:21 AM

I love sleep

**indie** · 03-18-2011, 11:51 AM

Sleep....the love ah my life

So is this the reason why I does wake up talking to myself about what I was learning the night before?

**Aurea** · 03-18-2011, 11:53 AM

Uh, how does this help Kem? Ent u are still asleep in a sense, how u gonna learn then and I quote "may be networking between key regions of the brain to clear a path to learning". What exactly do they mean by that? This is not the whole paper I am assuming. Link pls.

Aurea

**kemist** · 03-18-2011, 03:06 PM

The article doesn't imply that one learns while sleeping, just that information is transferred (more efficiently) from one part of the brain to another during the aforementioned period of sleep:

Sleep spindles
These electrical impulses help to shift fact-based memories from the brain’s hippocampus—which has limited storage space—to the prefrontal cortex’s “hard drive,” thus freeing up the hippocampus to take in fresh data

**Aurea** · 03-20-2011, 10:57 AM

I see...

Aurea

**letric** · 03-22-2011, 07:32 AM

Finland's school are small, laid-back - among the best in the world. They get results.
Finland's school has been close to the top of world's education rankings since 2000.
The school system is also remarkably laid-back. Children do not start school until
the age of seven, until the age of 16. There is no uniform and homework is minimal.
The school day finishes at 3.30pm sharp. There are free meals and, after school,
children can eat at an open "open kindergarten" before their parents come from work.
By contrast, over the same period over the same period, Britain has plummeted down
the tables, going from fourth in the world for science to 16th, seventh for literacy to
25th and eighth for mathematics to 28th. How can such an easy-going system produce
such academic impressive results? The children follow instructions, working cooperatively
in groups, schools are tiny-rarely bigger than 500 pupils. Carrying a badge of pride to help
the slowest pupils, and all children learn a language in addition to Finnish from a young age.