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Learning and Sleep

Meaning

Learning and Sleep refers to the neuroscientific understanding that sleep, particularly its distinct stages, plays an indispensable and active role in the acquisition, consolidation, and integration of new memories and skills. This bidirectional relationship means that adequate sleep is required both before learning to prepare the brain for encoding and after learning to solidify the information into long-term storage. Clinically, optimizing sleep architecture is a direct intervention for enhancing cognitive performance, academic recall, and neuroplasticity across the lifespan.