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Solving Problems in your sleep Based on an article from theconversation.com https://theconversation.com/can-you-sleep-your-way-to-better-decision-making-heres-what-the-science-says-242714 Comparison of Objects After a sleep session, participants were more likely to obtain information about items in a certain order, before sleep they mostly only compared the first in row https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0001638 Unconsciousness solving If a task was connected to a sound and the sound got played while the participants sleeped, they solved it way faster then others after waking up https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797619873344 Discovery of hidden connections After a nights sleep, people in the study were able to find indirect links between objects more likely then those who didnt sleeped https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2314423121 Recognition of underlying structures Given a math problem, people who had a short episode of light sleep before, were able to find the hidden rule more likely https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abj5866

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