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It’s every college kid’s dream—that is, for those of us who even sleep to begin with—and thanks to a new study, it may just become reality. We’re not suggesting resting your head on “Paradise Lost” when you fall asleep in the library, hoping to learn by osmosis (believe us, we’ve tested this theory).
Nor can you expect to pick up French in your sleep by listening to some language tapes, although sniffing roses while learning French and then smelling them in your sleep may help you retain it better. Basically, since sleep is now thought of as a time for memory consolidation, replaying certain auditory or olfactory cues in one’s sleep can help trigger those same memories.
So, it’s not like a gigantic leap in cognitive neuroscience or anything, but it stands to reason that if you listened to a certain song every time you tried to memorize the conjugates of aller for your French quiz and then again in your sleep, you might just be a little better off. Maybe.
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Sounds During Sleep Aid Memory, Study Finds [New York Times]
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