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JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 406-413Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12033
Keywords
declarative; interference; learning; memory consolidation; nap; sleep
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- German Research Foundation [Vo 542/9-1]
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Studies suggest that the consolidation of newly acquired memories and underlying long-term synaptic plasticity might represent a major function of sleep. In a combined repeated-measures and parallel-group sleep laboratory study (active waking versus sleep, passive waking versus sleep), we provide evidence that brief periods of daytime sleep (42.1 +/- 8.9min of non-rapid eye movement sleep) in healthy adolescents (16years old, all female), compared with equal periods of waking, promote the consolidation of declarative memory (word-pairs) in participants with high power in the electroencephalographic sleep spindle (sigma) frequency range. This observation supports the notion that sleep-specific brain activity when reaching a critical dose, beyond a mere reduction of interference, promotes synaptic plasticity in a hippocampal-neocortical network that underlies the consolidation of declarative memory.
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