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Brain Development: Why The Young Sleep Longer, Budhaditya Chowdhury, Orie T. Shafer
Brain Development: Why The Young Sleep Longer, Budhaditya Chowdhury, Orie T. Shafer
Advanced Science Research Center
From absorbing new languages to mastering musical instruments, young children are wired to learn in ways that adults are not (Johnson and Newport, 1989). This ability coincides with periods of intense brain plasticity during which neurons can easily remodel their connections (Hubel and Wiesel, 1970). Many children are also scandalously good sleepers, typically getting several more hours of sleep per night than their parents (Jenni and Carskadon, 2007). As sleep deprivation has negative effects on learning and memory, learning like a child likely requires sleeping like one (Diekelmann and Born, 2010). Yet, how the ability to sleep for longer is …