Can you learn in your sleep,yes!Here is how

The idea that we can learn in our sleep has captivated the minds of artists and scientists alike; the possibility that one day we could all drastically improve our productivity by learning in our sleep is very appealing.

But could such a scenario ever become a reality?

A team of researchers set out to investigate. Scott Cairney, from the University of York in the United Kingdom, co-led the research with Bernhard Staresina, who works at the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K.

"Sleep spindles," Cairney explains, "have been linked to the benefits of sleep for memory in previous research, so we wanted to investigate whether these brain waves mediate reactivation.""If they support memory reactivation, we further reasoned that it could be possible to decipher memory signals at the time that these spindles took place."

To test their hypotheses, Cairney and his colleagues asked 46 participants "to learn associations between words and pictures of objects or scenes before a nap."

Afterward, some of the participants took a 90-minute nap, whereas others stayed awake. To those who napped, "Half of the words were […] replayed during the nap to trigger the reactivation of the newly learned picture memories," explains Cairney."When the participants woke after a good period of sleep," he says, "we presented them again with the words and asked them to recall the object and scene pictures."

"We found that their memory was better for the pictures that were connected to the words that were presented in sleep, compared to those words that weren't," Cairney reports.

真的可以在睡觉中学习吗？是的。接下来了解到底是如何实现的?

我们可以在睡觉中学习的这个理论吸引了艺术家和科学家们的注意，未来某一天我们通过睡觉就可以彻底提高我们生产力的这种可能性让人非常的感兴趣。

但是这种设想究竟会不会成为现实呢？

一个研究团队打算就此理论进行研究，斯科特.凯尔尼来自英国纽约的伯恩哈德斯坦西雷纳的一家研究公司，工作于英国的伯明翰市大学。

凯尔尼解释，在之前的研究中表明对于记忆来说睡觉纺锤波和有益的睡眠是有关联的。所以我们想研究是否脑电波找到了重新恢复的方法。