Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...

Could lack of sleep cause your child to have trouble concentrating at school? Sleep deprivation can make it harder to pay attention or even stay awake during lessons. For students of all ages who ...

The old saying that we can solve problems more effectively when we “sleep on it” may be especially true if the problem we’re trying to solve is learning a new language. Researchers from two Swiss ...

The idea that dozing off with a textbook under one’s pillow enables “learning by osmosis” may be nothing more than a running joke among chemistry students, but a new study finds listening to ...

People wanting to learn a new language should make sure they get plenty of sleep, suggests a new study. Shut-eye is critical ...

For chronically sleep-deprived adolescents—which, according to the Centers for Disease Control, is most of them —afternoon naps could help bolster memory and learning, according to a new study in the ...

This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. My mother is one of five children, so she has plenty of stories about her and her siblings’ misadventures ...

Quite a bit of research has begun to explore influences of sleep on cognitive processes. In adults, sleep has a huge influence on memory. Sleep speeds learning of new skills. It also helps to separate ...