Editing Sleep-learning (section)

{{short description|Attempt to convey information to a sleeping person}}
'''Sleep-learning''' or '''sleep-teaching'''  (also known as '''hypnopædia''' or '''hypnopedia''') is an attempt to convey information to a [[sleep]]ing person, typically by playing a [[sound recording]] to them while they sleep. Although sleep is considered an important period for [[memory consolidation]],<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Diekelmann | first1 = Susanne | last2 = Born | first2 = Jan | date = 2010| title = The memory function of sleep | journal = Nature Reviews Neuroscience | volume = 11 | issue = 2 | pages = 114–126 |doi=10.1038/nrn2762| pmid = 20046194 | s2cid = 1851910 }}</ref> scientific research has concluded that sleep-learning is not possible. Once a concept explored in the early [[History of psychology|history]] of [[psychology]], sleep-learning appears frequently in fiction and [[parapsychology]], and is widely considered to be [[pseudoscience]].