Author: Daniel Boudreau

Dr. Killgore contends that cutting your sleep by as little as a few hours can alter emotional intelligence and decisionmaking and alters the connectivity between areas of the brain.

Dr. Stickgold suggests that a proper night of sleep is needed to effectively “file away” memories for later recall. Insufficient sleep after learning could cause a person’s learning experience to not get filed away at all, even if that person gets a large amount of sleep on the subsequent days following the learning experience.

Whether it be for visual memory like places and faces, motor memory like playing the piano, or informational memory like acing a biology test, sleep plays a vital role in maximizing one’s understanding and performance.

Dr. Niels Rattenborg is not your typical sleep scientist. He studies birds, not humans, for their sleep patterns which strongly resemble that of human’s.