Meir,
Maybe this is why I always studied better with music than with it completely
quiet. In humans, at least, there is definite variation, as my roommate
couldn't study unless it was quiet as a tomb.
On 5/30/07, Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Noisy Brain May Help Learning
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> While most people need peace and quiet to cram for a test, the brain
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> need noise to learn, a recent study suggests. In experiments with monkeys,
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> researchers found that neural activities in the brain gradually change,
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> when nothing new is being learned. Challenging the monkeys to adjust their
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> triggered systematic changes in their neural activities on top of this
> background "noise."
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> Research published in the May 24, 2007, issue of Neuron.
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> H. Sebastian Seung, Ph.D., HHMI investigator
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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