{"id":1038,"date":"2008-08-18T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2008-08-16T17:08:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T21:08:50","slug":"brain-week-sleep-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/1038","title":{"rendered":"Brain Week: Sleep on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is \u201cBrain Week\u201d on the GRACE writes blog. This week we\u2019ll feature items related to the brain, the mind, and learning. Today\u2019s entry features an article by Robert Stickgold and Jeffrey Elenbogen, \u201cSleep on It: Snoozing Makes Your Smarter\u201d  which appeared in <em>Scientific American <\/em>(August 7, 2008). Here\u2019s an excerpt:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The latest research suggests that while we are peacefully asleep our brain is busily processing the day\u2019s information. It combs through recently formed memories, stabilizing, copying and filing them, so that they will be more useful the next day. A night of sleep can make memories resistant to interference from other information and allow us to recall them for use more effectively the next morning. And sleep not only strengthens memories, it also lets the brain sift through newly formed memories, possibly even identifying what is worth keeping and selectively maintaining or enhancing these aspects of a memory. When a picture contains both emotional and unemotional elements, sleep can save the important emotional parts and let the less relevant background drift away. It can analyze collections of memories to discover relations among them or identify the gist of a memory while the unnecessary details fade\u2014perhaps even helping us find the meaning in what we have learned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=how-snoozing-makes-you-smarter&#038;print=true\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galindoconsultants.com\"><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/galindobanner5.jpg' alt='galindoconsultants.com' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is \u201cBrain Week\u201d on the GRACE writes blog. This week we\u2019ll feature items related to the brain, the mind, and learning. Today\u2019s entry features an article by Robert Stickgold and Jeffrey Elenbogen, \u201cSleep on It: Snoozing Makes Your Smarter\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/1038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development-theory","category-personal-growth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}