How to Learn a Language...in Your Sleep?!

Science has totally debunked the idea that you can learn anything in your sleep, right? Well, not quite -- I'll walk you through the studies and then discuss the experiment I ran on myself to find out whether this is possible! Warning -- the results might have you running out to get some sleep headphones!

Here are the links to things I discussed in the video:
The 2010 German study about object position and odor:
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n3/abs/nn.2744.html
The 2012 Guitar Hero study:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3152.epdf
The 2014 Swiss vocabulary study:
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/25/11/4169/2366428/Boosting-Vocabulary-Learning-by-Verbal-Cueing

The sleep headphones:
http://amzn.to/2q5M4X3 (affiliate link)

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