Sleep and the extraction of hidden regularities: A systematic review and the importance of temporal rules.

ABSTRACT: As part of its role in memory consolidation, sleep has been repeatedly identified as critical for the extraction of regularities from wake experiences. However, many null results have been published as well, with no clear consensus emerging regarding the conditions that yield this sleep effect. Here, we systematically review the role of sleep in the extraction of hidden regularities, specifically those involving associative relations embedded in newly learned information. We found that the specific behavioral task used in a study had far more impact on whether a sleep effect was discovered than either the category of the cognitive processes targeted, or the particular experimental design employed. One emerging pattern, however, was that the explicit detection of hidden rules is more likely

SUBMITTER: Lerner I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6779511 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature