The correlation between sleep patterns and learning patterns of children.

"Sleep, Neurobehavioral Functioning, and Behavior Problems in School-Age Children" Avi Sadeh, Reut Gruber, and Amiran Raviv wrote the article, "Sleep, Neurobehavioral Functioning, and Behavior Problems in School-Age Children," in 2000, which may be found in the journal Child Development, volume 73, number 2, on pages 405-417. The article was written about a study conducted in order explore the associations between sleep and neurobehavioral functioning (NBF) in everyday children of the school age using objective measures, focusing on whether …

…correlated with each other. The importance of this study, in my opinion, was to give information on the importance of sleep and functioning in everyday life. There is the ongoing debate as to whether sleep actually affects a person's everyday functioning, academic performance, and attitude, and this study gives evidence supporting that there is a correlation between these. I believe this study was worthwhile because it provides more information on this type of study topic.