{"id":2378,"date":"2014-02-25T19:10:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2014-02-28T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T13:47:34","slug":"5-things-you-didnt-know-about-sleep-and-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-sleep-and-study\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Sleep and Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you go to bed with headphones on the night before an important test or exam when you were at school, listening to the revision notes over and over again? Or did you listen to a recording of your speech as you drifted off to sleep the night before an important presentation at work? It may have seemed a desperate attempt to get the knowledge to stay in your head at the time, but the notion of sleep aiding learning is actually true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Headphones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2379\" alt=\"Headphones\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Headphones-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Headphones-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Headphones.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Studies showed that participants who had had <strong>a short sleep during the day were able to recall information more easily<\/strong>, and to a greater extent if the nap was taken nearer to the time of learning. A <strong>good night\u2019s sleep before a day of testing also gives improved results<\/strong> showing that <strong>we subconsciously learn while we\u2019re asleep<\/strong> and can transform this into usable knowledge during the day. But how is this possible?<\/p>\n<p>Everything we\u2019ve learned during the day is reinforced as we sleep due to the fact that the brain stays active. Even <strong>a quick snooze after learning something can result in a higher recollection<\/strong> of what we\u2019ve just learned. Therefore, it\u2019s not necessarily the amount of sleep we have, but the fact that we are able to have some sleep which gives our brain a chance to process the information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/file0001988663950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2380\" alt=\"file0001988663950\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/file0001988663950-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/file0001988663950-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/file0001988663950.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So <strong>sleep equals enhanced learning<\/strong>. But how does that help you with your language lessons? Don\u2019t worry, you haven\u2019t got to download all of your lessons and listen to them while you\u2019re trying to drift off to sleep, and you don\u2019t need to recite the verbs and tenses repeatedly until you fall asleep. It is a good idea, however, to do some revision not long before you go to sleep, as you\u2019re more likely to remember it in more detail when you wake up. And if you feel like you\u2019re having a brain overload after one of your lessons, try a power nap to help lock the information in your mind.<\/p>\n<p>Do you find that things seem clearer after you\u2019ve had some sleep? Why not see for yourself if the theory works by testing yourself to see how much you can recall from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/contact.html\">your language lessons<\/a> both before and after periods of sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you go to bed with headphones on the night before an important test or exam when you were at school, listening to the revision notes over and over again? Or did you listen to a recording of your speech as you drifted off to sleep the night before an important presentation at work? It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,154],"tags":[51,74,154],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language-acquisition","category-research","tag-language","tag-learning-languages","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}