PsychCentral – RICK NAUERT PHD
“A new study confirms that it is worth a parents effort to ensure that their school-aged child receives a good nights sleep. Researchers…found that sleep quality and duration are linked to better performance in math and languages…While other studies have pointed to links between sleep and general academic performance, the Montreal scientists examined the impact of sleep quality on report-card grades in specific subjects. Their findings: with greater sleep efficiency, the children did better in math and languages — but grades in science and art weren’t affected. “We believe that executive functions (the mental skills involved in planning, paying attention, and multitasking, for example) underlie the impact of sleep on academic performance, and these skills are more critical in math and languages than in other subjects,” says Reut Gruber, a clinical child psychologist who led the study.”(more)