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INTRODUCTION
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... These are the questions of chief concern in this paper. To address these issues, research dealing with a number of variables that may have an important influence on sleep learning is summarized in the second section of the paper, while in the third section, some tentative conclusions concerning the possibility and practicality of learning during sleep are offered, and prospects for future research are outlined.
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... Please INTRODUCTION 2 demonstrated that verbal information presented during sleep was irretrievable upon awakening unless presentation coincided with alpha activity, an EEG indicator of arousal or wakefulness. Their negative results, in combination with a highly critical commentary (Simon & Emmons 1955)
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... 1977) , these reports recommend a reappraisal of the conslusion that sleep learning is impossible, and raise a number of interesting questions concerning the conditions under which 3 the Soviet Union and other Eastern countries of success in demonstrating sleep learning (see Hoskovec 1966; Rubin 1968, 1971)


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