Study Suggests You Can Learn New Things In Your Sleep 99
bbianca127 writes "Researchers studied classical conditioning in 55 study participants while sleeping or awake. According to the article, 'Classical conditioning teaches a person or animal to associate one stimulus with another.' The researchers paired tones with scents; when they played a tone, they would let out a particular scent while the participants were sleeping. They found that the participants would make the association between the tones and scents even while awake."
Pavlovian Conditioning is not Learning (Score:2, Insightful)
It's a lot closer to Hypnosis or Brainwashing, in fact.
The funny thing about Hypnosis, is that it comes from Hypnos, meaning Sleep, meaning they proved you are far more suggestible when sleeping...
which we already knew.