Using Sleep to Understand how we learn | Dr Rebecca Spencer

Podcast: Degrees of Health · Benjamin Hopkins

Opublikowano: 2026-09-24

What actually happens in your brain while you sleep and how does it change what you remember? On this episode of Degrees of Health, Ben sits down with sleep researcher Dr Rebecca Spencer to explore how sleep shapes learning, memory and our everyday performance. Rebecca explains how the brain processes and organises information overnight, why the sleep stages matter, and why pulling an all-nighter might be working against the very thing you’re trying to learn. We also get into the fascinating role of naps, from why they’re so impo...