Individual Differences in Slow-Wave-Sleep Predict Acquisition of Full Cognitive Maps.

ABSTRACT: Accumulating evidence suggests that sleep, and particularly Slow-Wave-Sleep (SWS), helps the implicit and explicit extraction of regularities within memories that were encoded in a previous wake period. Sleep following training on virtual navigation was also shown to improve performance in subsequent navigation tests. Some studies propose that this sleep-effect on navigation is based on explicit recognition of landmarks; however, it is possible that SWS-dependent extraction of implicit spatiotemporal regularities contributes as well. To examine this possibility, we administered a novel virtual navigation task in which participants were required to walk through a winding corridor and then choose one of five marked doors to exit. Unknown to participants, the markings on the correct door refl

SUBMITTER: Lerner I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6186812 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature