"I would lose sleep if I thought it was dying as an art form, " she said.

WSJ: The New Script for Teaching Handwriting Is No Script at All

"Make sleep a priority, and if that fixes it, great, " she says.

WSJ: Unraveling the Riddle of Too Much Sleep

She added this could specifically help medical and military training and further research could be carried out to see if sleep loss affected other brain and memory functions in a similar way.

BBC: Spatial memory works in a similar way in rats and humans