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...have discovered that this additional stage of “delayed” learning is absolutely dependent on sleep and, more specifically, on certain types of sleep at certain times of the night. Perhaps most worrying from the perspective of the student, or learner, is the finding that if you do not sleep the first night after learning this information, you lose the chance to develop the additional, memory-enhancing stage...
...fact, even if you have plenty of “recovery” sleep across subsequent nights after being deprived of sleep, you still cannot regain the sleep-dependent learning effect. Sleep deprivation, at least in terms of memory consolidation, is not like the bank. You cannot accumulate a debt and hope to pay it off in a lump sum at a later date. It is an all or nothing event, and if you don’t snooze, you lose...
...naive to think I would eradicate the now-common practice of the “all-nighter” prior to exam day—a practice that I’m sure is as old as formative examinations themselves. And, while I truly believe that sleep deprivation after the fact is devastating to those newly formed memories, perhaps I can think orthogonally. Perhaps I can offer an alternative suggestion...
...educate—then I wonder if the traditional, all-encompassing exam at the end of the semester is the best option, since it seems to trigger a behavior quite oppositional to efficient memory development. While this examination method has been and continues to be debated, as a sleep researcher who understands the beneficial effects of a full night of shuteye, I can’t help thinking that logic, backed by scientific fact, must prevail...
...therefore need to rethink our current evaluation methods and the strategy it forces our students to adopt. However, before any decisions are made as a result of these thoughts, I suggest that we all sleep...