Developmental Differences in Sleep's Role for Implicit Off-line Learning: Comparing Children with Adults

• Published in: Journal of cognitive neuroscience Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 214 - 227
• Main Authors: Fischer, Stefan, Wilhelm, Ines, Born, Jan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.02.2007; MIT Press Journals, The
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Aging - physiology; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Child; Child development; Children & youth; Comparative analysis; Developmental psychology; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Memory; Memory - physiology; Neuropsychological Tests; Neurosciences; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time - physiology; Serial Learning - physiology; Sleep; Sleep - physiology; Task Performance and Analysis; Human; School age; Acquisition process; Sleep; Young adult; Cognition; Sleep wake cycle; Implicit learning; Cognitive development; Child; Preadolescent

Sleep crucially contributes to the off-line consolidation of memories. Although this view was confirmed in numerous studies in adults, it is not known whether it can be generalized to sleep during development. Here, we examined effects of sleep on implicit memory formation considered of particular r...