BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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Question
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Make sure the volume is turned up enough to hear it well during sleep.
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Make sure the volume isn’t loud enough to interfere with your ability to relax.
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Make sure there is music, such as Mozart, playing as well because it is known to enhance learning during sleep.
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Don’t spend your money on the tapes, because we don’t remember information we’ve heard while asleep.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Not a lot, unfortunately. As Jennifer Ackerman notes in her splendid 2007 book Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream, learning a language while sleeping “is probably impossible, [and] attempts to teach slumbering adult subjects vocabulary of foreign languages or lists of items have failed miserably.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Second, this study showed people may be able to aid vocabulary learning in their sleep, but picking up a new language involves much more than that. More complex parts of a language, such as grammar and conjugation rules, are out of reach, so it’s probably not possible to learn an entire new language this way.
Detailed explanation-3: -Absorbing complex information or picking up a new skill from scratch by, say, listening to an audio recording during sleep is almost certainly impossible. But research shows that the sleeping brain is far from idle and that some forms of learning can happen.