Gross motor adaptation benefits from sleep after training.

ABSTRACT: Sleep has been shown to facilitate the consolidation of newly acquired motor memories. However, the role of sleep in gross motor learning, especially in motor adaptation, is less clear. Thus, we investigated the effects of nocturnal sleep on the performance of a gross motor adaptation task, i.e. riding an inverse steering bicycle. Twenty-six male participants (M = 24.19, SD = 3.70 years) were randomly assigned to a PM-AM-PM (n = 13) or an AM-PM-AM (n = 13) group, i.e. they trained in the evening/morning and were re-tested the next morning/evening and the following evening/morning (PM-AM-PM/AM-PM-AM group) so that every participant spent one sleep as well as one wake interval between the three test sessions. Inverse cycling performance was assessed by speed (riding time) and accuracy (stand

SUBMITTER: Bothe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540033 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature