- Training Design Paradigm
- Key Success Factors
- Effects of Task Variability
- Effects of Task Difficulty
- Effects of Stress
- Effects of Motivation
- Effects of Arousal
- Effects of Feedback
- Effects of Music and Learning
- Sustainability of Brain Training
- Training Transferability
- Key Characteristics of Brain Training
- Effects of Exercise
- Effects of Exercise
- Effects of Sleep
- Resiliency
- Critics of Brain Training
Why Don’t You Sleep on It?
Conventional wisdom suggests that new insights about different facets of a problem and alternative solutions to resolve it can be gained during a good night’s sleep. There is a connection between these insights, the brain and sleeping. From a neuroscience perspective a regular, adequate amount of sleep is essential for brain development and synaptic consolidation, which helps to reconfigure weak and unstable memory traces into permanent ones in the long-term memory. Sleep deprivation, on the other hand, interferes with the efficient firing of the neurons and compromises the ability to focus and pay attention, and to learn and memorize new things (Arden, 2010).