Mapping Out the Trail

The exciting stage of research has commenced!
1. I struck gold on the first website article I found about how sleep affects the brain, memory, and how deprivation can cause psychological disorders. The website is Sleep and Psychological Disorders and the information I need to glean from this is about how sleep is necessary to retaining memories throughout the day, particularly observations. Also, the emotional memory aspect is significant to providing a connection between the observations and how it affects us.
2. A slightly juvenille website with elementary ideas about the skill set of spies/secret agents. Useful idea about the" number one rule of spying" is Rules of Secret Agents

3. A lucky and credible find: the Portland Police Officer Test. This test includes a section that tests observation and awareness skills by describing details of a scene. I don't know yet how that section is evaluated, but I will see if I can find out. The Portland Police Officer Test

4. An adorable abstract of a scientific study on zebra finches' song recall ability is based on how varying amounts of sleep affected their memories. This study found that after a lot of sleep, the zebra finch birds had memory deteoriation but those with the most post-sleep deteoriation had the best final imitation. So even though sleep set them back initially, they achieved the best final results... Zebra Finch Song Recall Study

I love doing research.
xoxo Court