Nighttime sleep benefits the prospective component of prospective memory.

ABSTRACT: Studies suggest that sleep benefits event-based prospective memory, which involves carrying out intentions when particular events occur. Prospective memory has a prospective component (remembering that one has an intention), and a retrospective component (remembering when to carry it out). As effects of sleep on retrospective memory are well established, the effect of sleep on prospective memory may thus be due exclusively to an effect of sleep on its retrospective component. Therefore, the authors investigated whether nighttime sleep improves the prospective component of prospective memory, or a retrospective component, or both. In a first session, participants performed an event-based prospective-memory task (that was embedded in an ongoing task) 3 minutes after forming an intention and,

SUBMITTER: Bohm MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8563623 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature