Sleep loss and false memories

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Sleep loss and false memories

Post by Kennerly » Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:44 am

Interesting post from Andrew Sullivan's blog:

This Is Your Brain On Sleep
The Dish / by Andrew Sullivan

Cody C. Delistraty highlights the latest research on sleep’s importance for your mental health:

Getting less than five hours of sleep a night makes people dumber and less able to concentrate, and it can make people more susceptible to false memories, according to a new study published in the September issue of Psychological Science.

Led by Steven J. Frenda of the University of California, Irvine, the study found that of the 193 people tested, participants who slept for less than five hours a night were significantly more likely to say they had seen a news video when they in fact never had. The sleep-deprived group was also more suggestible. While recounting a personal story, 38 percent of them incorporated false information the researchers had given them, whereas only 28 percent of those who had more than five hours of sleep accepted the researchers’ false information in their story retelling. Frenda and his researchers postulate that not sleeping significantly disturbs our ability to encode information.

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Re: Sleep loss and false memories

Post by 49er » Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:51 am

I definitely can relate and to this due to my problems with staying asleep on the pap machine. Regarding having false memories, what happens for me is I have vague recollections of something happening in which most of the details are missing. Thankfully, google exists to fill in the missing information.

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Kennerly wrote:Interesting post from Andrew Sullivan's blog:

This Is Your Brain On Sleep
The Dish / by Andrew Sullivan

Cody C. Delistraty highlights the latest research on sleep’s importance for your mental health:

Getting less than five hours of sleep a night makes people dumber and less able to concentrate, and it can make people more susceptible to false memories, according to a new study published in the September issue of Psychological Science.

Led by Steven J. Frenda of the University of California, Irvine, the study found that of the 193 people tested, participants who slept for less than five hours a night were significantly more likely to say they had seen a news video when they in fact never had. The sleep-deprived group was also more suggestible. While recounting a personal story, 38 percent of them incorporated false information the researchers had given them, whereas only 28 percent of those who had more than five hours of sleep accepted the researchers’ false information in their story retelling. Frenda and his researchers postulate that not sleeping significantly disturbs our ability to encode information.

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Re: Sleep loss and false memories

Post by Amenite » Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:56 am

I don't recall who it was that I was listening to a few years back but in an interview with a sleep researcher who had been studying sleep patterns for many years the researcher made a couple of points that stood out:
1. For "normal" sleepers, he had never seen anyone who claimed to get by on four hours a night that actually slept that amount - they were always getting more sleep than claimed when they were studied.
2. The threshold for health problems from sleep deprivation was generally around 6 hours/night. Once you dipped below that amount was when problems began to arise.

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Re: Sleep loss and false memories

Post by Kennerly » Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:10 am

Amenite wrote:I don't recall who it was that I was listening to a few years back but in an interview with a sleep researcher who had been studying sleep patterns for many years the researcher made a couple of points that stood out:
1. For "normal" sleepers, he had never seen anyone who claimed to get by on four hours a night that actually slept that amount - they were always getting more sleep than claimed when they were studied.
2. The threshold for health problems from sleep deprivation was generally around 6 hours/night. Once you dipped below that amount was when problems began to arise.
Yeah I've always wondered about stories of people who only seem to need half as much sleep as the rest of the population. A number of times I've heard Jay Leno say that he needs very little sleep (around 4 hours a night?). On the other hand when you look at his energy level its tough to not believe that he and people like him do have a "special deal" when it comes to energy, so maybe it also applies to sleep.

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