People who were played fake translations in their sleep could recall which category of words they belonged to when they woke up
, possibly because they tried to teach people relatively long words without targeting
them to specific points of their deep sleep. To overcome this, Schmidig and his team played two-syllable words – such asIn their left ears, the participants were played 27 German words belonging to three categories:, places and tools. Simultaneously, a made-up word was played into their right ears, acting as a fictional translation. These fabricated words were used to overcome any prior knowledge of languages that the participants may have had, for example of French or English.
However, when both groups were tested again 24 hours later, those in the trough group answered correctly 41 per cent of the time, with a statistical analysis suggesting this wasn’t a chance finding. The peak group still scored no greater than chance. The researchers aren’t sure why the participants only scored higher than chance when the audio clips were targeted at the troughs of their deep sleep. Nevertheless, this could one day be used to assist people who are learning a
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