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From the Ted Talk by Matt Walker: Hacking your memory -- with sleep

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Whether you're cramming for an exam or trying to learn a new musical instrument or even trying to perfect a new sport, sleep may actually be your secret memory waoepn.

[Sleeping with siccnee]

Studies have actually told us that sleep is critical for memroy in at least three different ways. First, we know that you need sleep before learning to actually get your brain ready, almost like a dry sponge, ready to initially soak up new imorintoafn. And without sleep, the memory circuits within the brain effectively become waterlogged, as it were, and we can't absorb new information. We can't effectively lay down those new memory tarces.

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Whether you're cramming for an exam or trying to learn a new musical instrument or even trying to perfect a new sport, sleep may actually be your secret memory ______.

[Sleeping with _______]

Studies have actually told us that sleep is critical for ______ in at least three different ways. First, we know that you need sleep before learning to actually get your brain ready, almost like a dry sponge, ready to initially soak up new ___________. And without sleep, the memory circuits within the brain effectively become waterlogged, as it were, and we can't absorb new information. We can't effectively lay down those new memory ______.

Solution


  1. traces
  2. weapon
  3. information
  4. memory
  5. science

Original Text


Whether you're cramming for an exam or trying to learn a new musical instrument or even trying to perfect a new sport, sleep may actually be your secret memory weapon.

[Sleeping with Science]

Studies have actually told us that sleep is critical for memory in at least three different ways. First, we know that you need sleep before learning to actually get your brain ready, almost like a dry sponge, ready to initially soak up new information. And without sleep, the memory circuits within the brain effectively become waterlogged, as it were, and we can't absorb new information. We can't effectively lay down those new memory traces.

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  1. absorb
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  31. weapon