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Good night's sleep makes you better at that video game
No more late nights of gaming.
Brief ArticleThese results, presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Toronto, show that sleep alters brain function and in so doing may help turn new skills into habits.
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Hotpockets make you better at gaming. Sleep is for the weak!
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There are studies that also show that being tired while playing video games increases the chance of you going into "The zone" which is a stress-induced state.
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I hit \"the zone\" usually at around 11 or so. I am total uber-ness when I hit that and I usually suck any time before that. Like Spyder said, I hit the zone after I start to get a little tired.
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The link doesn't work for me. Can you either post another link or copy the text?
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Why do we sleep? Scientists have pondered this question for some time, but no one yet has all the answers. Recent evidence suggests that one effect of sleep is to consolidate memories of events encountered during the day.
Research carried out by a group of scientists in Belgium, led by Pierre Orban and Philippe Peigneux, suggests that memory related brain activity also is affected by sleep. In their experiment volunteers learned to navigate through a virtual town, and then had their brain activity measured with MRI scans while they attempted to reach a target location.
After being tested, some of the participants were sent home to sleep and others were kept awake overnight in the laboratory. When scanned again several days later, everyone showed less brain activity in a region of the temporal lobe thought to mediate learning new spatial environments.
However, those individuals allowed to sleep after the first training session showed more activity in another brain region, the caudate nucleus, which allows task performance to become more automatic during learning.
These results, presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Toronto, show that sleep alters brain function and in so doing may help turn new skills into habits.
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Fixed it for you!
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You can sleep when you're dead!!
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Thanks Spyder.
It's a pitty they didn't give the subjects a similar test again to see if those who had slept on their skill learned it better.
I would really like to see some research sowing whether it is better to study/practise in the afternoon and then relax in the evening, or study/practise just before bed then sleep on it. Similarly, would a recap of what you had learned today just before lights out be more effective than a recap in the morning of what you learned yesterday?...Wintermute
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