Prof. Gina Poe of UCLA on Sleep
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How Does Sleep Spindles Affect Learning?
During sleep, and only during sleep, when nora drenlan is not present, is when the pre frontal cortex can loosen the scheme to fit in new piece of information. And s yes, that's at the transition from non rem to rem sleep. Sleep spindles are really cool, because your density of sleep spindles correlates well with ic, you know, your intelligence clocient. So and your ability to learn across sleep, if you're able to increase whatever base line level ofSleep spindles you have if you've learned something new. And need to incorporate it into your forebrain,. thou density ofsleep spindles goes up as a result.
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