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Hacking into Sleep to Enrich Learning: Could Metabolic Disorders Contribute to Learning?

Hacking into Sleep to Enrich Learning: Could Metabolic Disorders Contribute to Learning? Angie Radek             In 2018, students are constantly battling with sleep and eating poorly. Also, many students are curious when the best time for sleep is, when is memory enduring, when does memory consolidation happen, and what is happening on a neurological level during sleep. Basically, sleep is popular and trending amongst today’s generation. The mystery of these questions has been answered by Dr. Paller. But, is sleep the only factor to enhance learning?             Dr. Paller argues that practice is what makes memory enduring and that consolidation is actually happening when an individual is sleeping because memories require deep and elaborate encoding Additionally, Dr. Paller argues that the most important stage of sleep to enhance learning is the slow- wave -sleep. Using ...