- Wouldn't you love to fall asleep and wake up knowing the French word for potato?
- According to research, our brains can learn a new language while we are sleeping.
- A report from Current Biology found that study participants could absorb new information because the brain continues to process information while we are snoozing.
- While the test subject wore headphones, they were fed word associations with a different language. When they woke up, the participants were able to comprehend the meaning of what they heard when they were sleeping.
- A press release about the study said, "It was particularly interesting that language areas and the hippocampus — which normally regulate language-learning while we're awake — were also activated when learning the vocabulary learnt in deep sleep. It seems these structures regulate memory formation independent of whatever state of consciousness we're in — whether unconsciously in sleep, or consciously while we're awake."
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