Bedtime reading with a tablet or smartphone can interfere with a good night’s sleep, some studies and many anecdotal reports suggest. Now researchers have conducted a small experiment to test the idea.
一些研究和个案报告表明,使用平板电脑或手机进行睡前阅读可能会影响睡眠质量。研究人员进行了一个小实验来验证这一说法。
- anecdotal adj.轶事的 传闻
Scientists had nine people spend 10 nights in a sleep laboratory. For five consecutive nights, they read before sleep with an iPad; then they read print for five nights. In both scenarios, they read in a dimly lit room until they felt ready to go to sleep.
科学家让九人在睡眠实验室中度过了10个晚上。他们将连续五个夜晚使用iPad进行睡前阅读,接下来的五个夜晚,他们会阅读印刷品。两种情况下,他们都会在光线昏暗的房间里阅读,直到他们感觉已准备好入睡。
- dimly adv.朦胧地;微暗
The experiment, described in Physiological Reports, found t