Neither snap judgements nor sleeping on a problem are any better than conscious thinking for making complex decisions, according to new research.The finding debunks a controversial 2006 research result asserting that unconscious thought is superior for complex decisions, such as buying a house or car. If anything, the new study suggests that conscious thought leads to better choices. [continue reading…]
 As we snooze, our brain is busily processing the information we have learned during the day.Â
Sleep makes memories stronger, and it even appears to weed out irrelevant details and background information so that only the important pieces remain.
Our brain also works during slumber to find hidden relations among memories and to solve problems we were working on while awake. Continue reading…..
Source: Scientific American
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Family, friends and neighbors remember Lisa Sandler Spaeth as an active mother of two in Potomac, Md., with a lot on the go, juggling her son’s baseball games and her daughter’s horseback-riding lessons with numerous committee obligations, organizing women’s activities at her local synagogue. Add to this Spaeth’s thriving home business turned wholesale supplier – making custom hair accessories for children – which she founded with her mother. [continue reading…]
Grumpiness and lethargy are well recognised behaviours in schoolkids with insufficient sleep, but a new study at Flinders University shows that lack of sleep impairs children’s ‘working memories’, negatively affecting their academic ability and ultimately dragging down their marks and grades.
Flinders psychologist and sleep researcher Dr Michael Gradisar led a study of adolescent schoolchildren that shows the performance of complex tasks that require information to be retained while other information is processed are affected by levels of sleep. [continue reading…]
