Researchers discover humans can learn while asleep.

Researchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland have discovered that humans have some capacity for learning during sleep. Their research found that word associations delivered via headphones while subjects were sleeping resulted in a better than chance correlation between the terms when presented with them while awake.

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