Nap-mediated benefit to implicit information processing across age using an affective priming paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how sleep-related information processing affects behaviour may allow targeted cognitive enhancement to improve quality of life. Previous evidence demonstrates that implicitly-presented cues are processed during subsequent sleep, resulting in enhanced cognition upon waking. We used a masked priming task to investigate this further. To assess sleep-mediated effects on reactions to implicitly presented primes, participants performed an Affective Priming Task pre-and-post 90 min of sleep, compared with an equal period of wakefulness. The Choice Reaction Time Task-a similar binary choice task but without the implicit aspect-was used as a control. Sixteen healthy participants across a range of ages were tested and sleep monitored using electroencephalogram. In stark contrast to the

SUBMITTER: Shaikh N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7140178 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature