Keenious for students
Find the right papers. Understand what you read.
Search about 177M academic publications in your own words, on the web or next to your document in Word and Google Docs.
How does losing sleep affect what we remember?
Use at least five peer-reviewed sources.
Research is how you learn a subject
Searching and reading are where you learn a field: its vocabulary, its debates, and the people who work in it. Keenious helps you find your way through that work and understand what you find.
You learn the words researchers use
Describe your topic in everyday words and Keenious shows the terms researchers use for it. You see them in the results and the research areas, and you can use them in your next search and in your essay.
You see the whole topic
The map shows how a topic splits into research areas. You learn the shape of the field along with the five sources your assignment asks for.
Explanations of the passage in front of you
Highlight a sentence in a paper and Keenious explains it in plain language. You read the paper itself, so you can say what it found and how.
What you hand in is your own work
Keenious does not write essays, paragraphs, or assignment outlines. Every source you find is a published paper you can open and check.
From first question to thesis supervisor
Where Keenious helps when you research an assignment or a thesis.
Getting started
Search in your own words
Describe your topic the way you would explain it to a classmate. Keenious translates everyday language into the terms researchers use and groups the results into clear topic areas.
Researchers study this as sleep deprivation and memory consolidation. The papers I found fall into areas you can search on their own:
Reading
Get unstuck on tough passages
Academic papers often assume background courses or unfamiliar terminology. Highlight any term or sentence while you read to get a plain-language explanation right beside the paper.
Sleep Deprivation Selectively Impairs Memory Consolidation for Contextual Fear Conditioning
Laurel A. Graves, Elizabeth A. Heller +2 · Learning & Memory · 2003
...sleep deprivation from 0-5 h after training for this task impaired memory consolidation for contextual fear conditioning whereas sleep deprivation from 5-10 h after training had no effect...
In contextual fear conditioning, an animal learns to link a place with something unpleasant. That kind of memory depends on the hippocampus. The cued version links a sound instead and does not, which is why the authors test both.
Citing
Cite sources you can stand behind
Every result is a real publication you can open and read for yourself. When you are ready to reference a paper, copy the citation in APA, MLA, Harvard, or your course style.
Graves, L. A., Heller, E. A., Pack, A. I., & Abel, T. G. (2003). Sleep deprivation selectively impairs memory consolidation for contextual fear conditioning. Learning & Memory, 10(3), 168-176. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.48803
Your thesis
Find a thesis supervisor
Explore who publishes on your topic, see what they are working on lately, and find researchers at your own university who could advise your thesis.
I found 21 researchers at the University of Bergen. They work in areas such as Arc Synaptic Memory Consolidation, Sleep Loss Serotonin Rat and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Cognition. Start with the area closest to your topic.
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