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Thursday, 12 October 2023
Targeted memory reactivation during sleep

Today I’d like to talk a bit about learning passively while you sleep—for example, by playing a recording. As it turns out, this process seems to work only for very simple forms of associative learning under very specific conditions. You can’t learn anything completely new in your sleep. So, for example, if you play Spanish or French language tapes during the night, without doing anything else, you won’t get any results, except for maybe a bad night’s sleep. (more…)

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