Sleep learning
LISTENING to revision tapes during sleep may sound like a slightly desperate revision tactic, but now scientists have found evidence that it may not be such a bad idea.
The study found that human brains were able to process the meaning of words while we sleep, suggesting that it might be possible to train the mind in particular tasks while we lie slumbering.
Sid Kouider, a neuroscientist who led the work at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, said:
In 1966 I was studying Bahasa Indonesia at RAAF Base Point Cook and still remember taking a huge reel to reel tape recorder back to barracks, setting it on ‘play’ before going to bed with a speaker under my pillow.
I qualified so maybe it worked but my experience with sleep learning was 9 years before Sid Kouider was even born proving again that what’s new, isn’t.
I might add one had to be young and fit to carry the old Grundig but it did work in a clunky manner. If the Language School is still using sleep learning I guess there is an app for the students to load in their IPhone.
The more things change……
“The sleeping brain can be far more ‘active’ in sleep than one would think. Far from falling into a limbo when we fall asleep, parts of our brain can routinely process what is going on in our surroundings.
In 1966 I was studying Bahasa Indonesia at RAAF Base Point Cook and still remember taking a huge reel to reel tape recorder back to barracks, setting it on ‘play’ before going to bed with a speaker under my pillow.
I qualified so maybe it worked but my experience with sleep learning was 9 years before Sid Kouider was even born proving again that what’s new, isn’t.
I might add one had to be young and fit to carry the old Grundig but it did work in a clunky manner. If the Language School is still using sleep learning I guess there is an app for the students to load in their IPhone.
The more things change……
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