SLEEP LEARNING IN THE USSR.
Abstract
For the past five years, increasing interest has been shown in the Soviet Union in educational processes involving the learning and retention of material presented during natural sleep. The process of sleep learning, which the Soviet press has dubbed 'hypnopedia,' has not yet been adequately explained, and its application involves considerable difficulties. Some current research problems in this area are: (1) determining the desirability of sleep learning, and its efficiency in comparison to conventional learning; (2) the purely technical problem of designing a universally perceptible sleep aduiting signal for large numbers of people under 'classroom' conditions and taking into account their physiological and psychological peculiarities; (3) the problem of monitoring and determining the optimal stages of sleep for auditing signals; (4) coordinating and programming the sleep stages of large numbers of people when the optimal stage of sleep for auditing is determined; (5) avoiding the fatigue brought on by repeated sleep-learning sessions; (6) the recollection of the audited signal upon awakening. Serious attempts have been made by two leading Soviet pioneers of sleep learning to resolve problems in this area.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 07, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0682527
Entities
People
- Christopher H. Dodge
- Eugenia Lamont
Organizations
- Library of Congress