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Study Suggests You Can Learn New Things In Your Sleep

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-know-kung-fu dept.

bbianca127 writes "Researchers studied classical conditioning in 55 study participants while sleeping or awake. According to the article, 'Classical conditioning teaches a person or animal to associate one stimulus with another.' The researchers paired tones with scents; when they played a tone, they would let out a particular scent while the participants were sleeping. They found that the participants would make the association between the tones and scents even while awake."

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  1. I knew it! by lazybeam · · Score: 4, Funny

    My sleepy lectures weren't wasting time after all.

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  2. I only make one tone and scent when I sleep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And nobody wants to learn it.

  3. Omelette... by QuasiSteve · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...du fromage!

  4. Simpsons did it. by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 4, Funny

    Marge: Homer, has the weight loss tape reduced your appetite?
    Homer: Ah, lamentably no. My gastronomic rapacity knows no satieties.

  5. Re:in some lectures staying up does not help much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Definition Lecture were information passes from the Lecturer's notes to the student's notes without passing through the mind of either.