The effect of daytime napping and full-night sleep on the consolidation of declarative and procedural information.

ABSTRACT: Many studies investigating sleep and memory consolidation have evaluated full-night sleep rather than alternative sleep periods such as daytime naps. This multi-centre study followed up on, and was compared with, an earlier full-night study (Schabus et al., 2004) investigating the relevance of daytime naps for the consolidation of declarative and procedural memory. Seventy-six participants were randomly assigned to a nap or wake group, and performed a declarative word-pair association or procedural mirror-tracing task. Performance changes from before to after a 90-min retention interval filled with sleep or quiet wakefulness were evaluated between groups. Associations between performance changes, sleep architecture, spindles, and slow oscillations were investigated. For the declarative tas

SUBMITTER: van Schalkwijk FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6378597 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature