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...depend on something called procedural memory, which is needed for any task that requires repetition and practice. Remembering a fact, like the name of the first U.S. President, is an example of declarative memory, a different kind of capability that apparently is not affected by REM sleep. Says Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School: "We were basically naive about memory...
...study is the dissertation of Sara C. Mednick, a graduate student in psychology, who worked under the supervision of a professor in Harvard’s psychology department, Ken Nakayama, and a Harvard Medical School professor, Robert Stickgold...
Harvard Medical School Professor Robert A. Stickgold, who also teaches Psychology 987f, “The Biology of Conscious States: Waking, Sleeping and Dreaming,” says these anxiety dreams are problem-solving strategies of the subconscious. “My take is that these students—or their brains—are searching for ways to solve emotionally charged problems,” he says. “If they’re in REM sleep, their brains are in a physiological and neurochemical state where they preferentially consider very unlikely solutions...
Both Ducey and Stickgold empathize to a certain degree with the sweat-drenched sheets of academic nightmares, but they say at a place like Harvard it’s pretty much par for the course. “Anyone who takes exams as seriously as those who care about grades and evaluations do will be plagued by such academic anxiety dreams,” Ducey says...
...terms of forming those memories of facts you are trying to cram, that happens in the hippocampus," Stickgold says. "The first recording in the hippocampus is very fast and reliable. But if you don't get sleep afterward, you may not get the memories into the neocortex...