{"id":8140,"date":"2014-04-08T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2014-04-08T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:00:41","slug":"sleep-research-wakes-up-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2014\/04\/sleep-research-wakes-up-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Research Wakes Up the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Christina<\/a>

Christina Draganich \u201912<\/strong>, left, and Psychology Professor
Kristi Erdal are gaining attention for their study on sleep.<\/p><\/div>\n

A study by Psychology Professor Kristi Erdal and Christina Draganich \u201912<\/strong> is making people sit up and take notice. Students who were told they got a good night\u2019s sleep \u2014 even if they didn\u2019t \u2014 performed better on tests measuring their attention and memory skills than those who thought they slept poorly, according to Draganich\u2019s research.<\/p>\n

A paper about the study, \u201cPlacebo Sleep Affects Cognitive Functioning,\u201d was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.<\/i> The study was based on two experiments with 164 students that Draganich did for her senior thesis in neuroscience. The study has been picked up widely by media, including The Independent<\/i> in the United Kingdom, The Atlantic, Salon, <\/i>and \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unusual for a paper written by an undergraduate to be published in a prominent journal, Erdal said.\u00a0 \u201cWhat it speaks to is that students\u2019 ideas are that good at Colorado College\u201d.\u00a0 In Erdal\u2019s 18 years at CC, Draganich is the fourth of her students to be published in a prominent journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A study by Psychology Professor Kristi Erdal and Christina Draganich \u201912 is making people sit up and take notice. Students who were told they got a good night\u2019s sleep \u2014 even if they didn\u2019t \u2014 performed better on tests measuring their attention and memory skills than those who thought they slept poorly, according to Draganich\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2014","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}