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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State

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Sleep Spindles and Creativity

I'd love for you to tell us a little bit about the role of sleep in problem solving and creativity. If spindles are involved I think they could be involved because we now know a lot more about spindles. No matter what your intelligence is if you learn something during the day and increase your sleep spindle density it's really almost perfectly correlated with our ability to consolidate that information. P waves and spindles work together to cause plasticity and so are schema together which could be origins for insight into creative thinking.

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