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Dirk Martin
Infant Sleep & Learning Study
2 minutes Posted Apr 18, 2018 at 8:15 pm.
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New CU Boulder research suggests when a sleeping infant hears a sound, the brain reshapes itself
According to a new CU Boulder study, infants as young as one-month-old show that during sleep their brain is processing information about its environment and performing computations about that information, paving the way to developing pathways for learning, says Phillip Gilley, lead author of the study.