Infants Brain Keeps Working Around the Clock

It was recently told by the scientists that infants stay awake for just a few hours a day whereas their brains keep working all the time even when they are sleeping.
According to them, the brain all the time adjusts and adapts to the physical world in spite of appearances that they sleep.
From the tests conducted on one and two day-old babies it was seen that they have a capability of acting like data sponges. They keep soaking up information about the world around them.
It was noticed that the discovery was made by experts at the University of Florida after simple experiments were conducted with 26 sleeping newborns.
In the experiment researchers played a tune to them, and then followed it with a gentle puff of air to the babies' eyelids. It was noticed that after 20 minutes, 24 children learned to expect the puff by closing their eyes.
"We found a basic form of learning in sleeping newborns, a type of learning that may not be seen in sleeping adults. They are better learners, better 'data sponges' than we knew. While past studies find this type of learning can occur ininfants who are awake, this is the first study to document it in their most frequent state, while they are asleep”, said Dana Byrd, a Psychologist.