Age-related changes in sleep-dependent novel word consolidation.

ABSTRACT: Learning new words is a vital, life-long process that benefits from memory consolidation during sleep in young adults. In aging populations, promoting vocabulary learning is an attractive strategy to improve quality of life and workplace longevity by improving the integration of new technology and the associated terminology. Decreases in sleep quality and quantity with aging may diminish sleep-dependent memory consolidation for word learning. Alternatively, given that older adults outperform young adults on vocabulary-based tasks, and that strength of memory encoding (how well older adults learn) predicts sleep-dependent memory consolidation, word learning may uniquely benefit from sleep in older adults. We assessed age-related changes in memory for novel English word-definition pairs reca

SUBMITTER: Kainec KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8771760 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature