Traditional Approach for Examining the Relation between Sleep and Cognitive Functioning

Sleep plays a parallel role in maintaining good health as diet and exercise. It not only improves the performance of our brain but also manages our mood swings and maintains our health. Not getting proper hours of sleep on a regular basis may become the reason for many disorders and diseases. Stress often impacts the sleep cycle of an individual resulting in a severe impact on their physical and mental health. Stress even affects the cognitive functioning of an individual, which refers to the mental processes involving memory management, decision thinking, etc. So, eventually, stress becomes a common factor for both. This study proposes an approach helping individuals to reduce stress by turning towards a proper sleep cycle eventually resulting in an increase in cognitive functioning. This paper uses the conventional method of machine learning through which it could be justified that as stress increases the number of hours slept by the person decreases. Furthermore, a correlation was established between sleep stress and cognitive functioning through which it could be concluded that sleep affects cognitive functioning. Previous research studies suggest that there is a link between video games and increased cognitive functioning, So, this study proposed the solution as a game named CANDY CRUSH which is much popular among middle age groups as it is easy to learn and can prove to be stress releaser for them eventually leading to better cognitive functioning.