How Do Sleep Patterns Change as We Age

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Short Answer

How do sleep patterns change as we age?

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Definitions:

Context Effects

How the context or environment in which information is presented can influence an individual's perception, comprehension, or memory of that information.

Top-Down Processing

The cognitive process that starts with the analysis of high-level information before identifying more detailed data.

Feature Detection

A process in the brain that allows it to recognize different parts or features of an object, such as edges, motion, and colors, in order to identify the object.

Feature Detectors

Neurons in the brain that specialize in recognizing specific features of one's environment, such as shapes or angles.