Task Complexity Modulates Sleep-Related Offline Learning in Sequential Motor Skills.

ABSTRACT: Recently, a number of authors have advocated the introduction of gross motor tasks into research on sleep-related motor offline learning. Such tasks are often designed to be more complex than traditional key-pressing tasks. However, until now, little effort has been undertaken to scrutinize the role of task complexity in any systematic way. Therefore, the effect of task complexity on the consolidation of gross motor sequence memory was examined by our group in a series of three experiments. Criterion tasks always required participants to produce unrestrained arm movement sequences by successively fitting a small peg into target holes on a pegboard. The sequences always followed a certain spatial pattern in the horizontal plane. The targets were visualized prior to each transport movement o

SUBMITTER: Blischke K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5525265 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature