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#69 The Science of Sleep
July 23, 2010 · 5 Comments
Dr. Kimberly A. Cote, Director of the Brock University Sleep Laboratory, discusses the research into the relationship between sleep, cognition and performance.
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My question for her: In your capacity as director of a sleep laboratory, how much insomnia do you find can be mostly attributed to sleep hygeine as opposed to somatic causes?
If this is dumb and/or totally off topic to what she talks about, please don’t ask it. ;-)
by ZenMonkey · on July 21, 2010 at 5:14 am
Here’s my question: What keeps YOU up at night? How does sleep loss affect your life, given that it’s part of your area of study?
by Austin · on July 21, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I once had a big test I was studying for one night. I had everything memorized except one thing I kept confusing. While I slept, I dreamed all night that I was rehearsing what I had been studying, including the thing I had trouble on. The next day, I felt much more prepared and had finally memorized that one thing while I slept. What effect does sleep have on solidifying what we learned the day before? Would this apply to procedural memory as well?
by Ginger Pomiecko (poh MEE ko) · on July 23, 2010 at 11:34 am
- in the few minutes, talking about the defining word skeptic and the negative view of the word. Yes I prefer the word “rationalist”.
- Someone mentioned that it’s about “not accepting things at face values”. So we could simply say that a skeptic is a person who checks ie a CHECKER ..we could even use the image of a checker board as a logo.
- when the airline pilot is running through preflight checks would the cartoon character really say “No one likes a checker !”
- no checking is positive thing .. and so really is skepticism
by Stew Green · on July 28, 2010 at 3:14 am
We agree with you. Now to get everyone else on board. ;)
by Desiree · on July 28, 2010 at 5:31 am