PSYC1024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Memory Consolidation, Frontal Lobe, Visual Cortex

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1024
• Professor: Dr Joshua Broderick

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Lecture 15- what is the function of sleep. The average person will spend approximately 1/3 of their life asleep. You will sleep for approximately 3000 hours this year alone. There is no one widely accepted theory- likely a combination of explanations. Organisms evolved sleeping behaviours in order to remain stationary during th. It would be difficult to be awake constantly- require a large amount of sustenan. In humans metabolic activity is reduced by at least 5% when asleep. Oxygen consumption, heart rate and body temperature all fall in the first few h. Animals sleep in order to repair their bodies. When animals sleep the low metabolism allows a concentration of protein to o. Growth hormones are released during the evening- when asleep. Growth hormones administered to human adolescents who are of short stature evening. It serves the function of neurological repair- including memory consolidation.