Andrew Huberman· PhD
So we can think of slow wave sleep as important for motor learning, motor skill learning and for the learning of specific details about specific events.
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So we can think of slow wave sleep as important for motor learning, motor skill learning and for the learning of specific details about specific events.
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the key things to know are slow wave sleep is involved in motor learning and detailed learning. There's no acetylcholine around at that time, has these big amplitude activity sweeping throughout the brain and that there's the release of these neuromodulators, norepinephrine and serotonin.
Learning of those skills is happening primarily during slow wave sleep, in the early part of the night.