{"id":1349,"date":"2015-01-14T15:21:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:21:26","slug":"learning-memory-naps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/learning-memory-naps","title":{"rendered":"Learning, Memory, and Naps"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"<div style=\"width: 336px; margin-left: 60px;\" class=\"thrv_wrapper tve_image_caption\">\n<span class=\"tve_image_frame\">\n<img class=\"tve_image\" alt=\"napping baby\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nath_nap1.jpg\" style=\"width: 336px\">\n<\/span>\n<\/div><p data-default=\"Enter your text here...\" class=\"\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-30776745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">study with infants<\/a>, aged 6 to 12 months, showed that napping aided memory and learning.<\/p><blockquote class=\"\" contenteditable=\"false\">They [the researchers] taught six- to 12-month-olds three new tasks involving playing with hand puppets.&nbsp;<br><br><p class=\"\">\nHalf the babies slept within four hours of learning, while the rest either had no sleep or napped for fewer than 30 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nThe next day, the babies were encouraged to repeat what they had been taught.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nThe results, <strong>published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/strong>, showed \"sleeping like a baby\" was vital for learning.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nOn average one-and-a-half tasks could be repeated after having a substantial nap.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nYet zero tasks could be repeated if there was little sleep time.<\/p><\/blockquote><p data-default=\"Enter your text here...\" class=\"\" contenteditable=\"false\">We need to be awake when learning, but it seems that a nap right after the learning aids memory. The researchers go on to say that reading to a child just before bedtime is good. &nbsp;We know that sleep helps our brains make new cellular connections and to me, the new connections help learning and retention of that learning.<\/p><p data-default=\"Enter your text here...\" class=\"\" contenteditable=\"false\">I recall from a college psych class lecture, that studying for an exam and then going directly to sleep was the best thing to do. &nbsp;That was for adults - and no surprise that it works for babies as well.<\/p><p data-default=\"Enter your text here...\" class=\"\">Having just gone through new puppyhood, I will say, it seems to work for dogs as well....<\/p><p data-default=\"Enter your text here...\" class=\"\" contenteditable=\"false\">I love that more and more research on learning, brains, sleep, and memory are appearing. All these findings may help us to develop to our fullest potentials all through our lifecycle<\/p><p data-default=\"Enter your text here...\" class=\"\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"color: rgb(230, 14, 14);\"><span class=\"bold_text\">Share your thoughts and comments below - and Thank You!!<\/span><\/p>","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{"e":"1"},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[283,343],"tags":[458,532,379,385,529,382,527,528],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-development","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-brains","tag-child-development","tag-child-psychology","tag-human-interest","tag-infants","tag-lynn-dorman-phd","tag-naps-learning","tag-sleep","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}