Intensive language learning and increases in rapid eye movement sleep: evidence of a performance factor.
Ten anglophone students taking a 6-week French immersion course were recorded in the sleep laboratory during 4 consecutive nights before the course, during the course and after the course. There was a positive and significant (P less than 0.05) correlation between language learning efficiency and increases in the percentage of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep from pre-course to course periods. This observation suggests that learning performance may be an important factor in the relationship between information processing and REM sleep.
De Koninck
J
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School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ont., Canada.
Lorrain
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Christ
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Proulx
G
G
Coulombe
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*