Fire Up the Brain

Question 1

What are the 3 ways sleep matters for learning?

Answer 1

1. you need to be well-rested to be ready for new information – all-nighter is bad…
2. sleep after learning to cement and integrate info into the brain
3. selective memory retention / deletion

Question 2

What is the hippocampus?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What are two ways sleep integrates information?

Answer 3

Deep sleep brain waves will shift short term memories to long term storage in the cortex

Memory replay happens during sleep and the brain will replay memory traces to etch the information more powerfully into the brain