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Brief periods of NREM sleep do not promote early offline gains but subsequent on-task performance in motor skill learning
- Source :
- Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 145:18-27
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Sleep modulates motor learning, but its detailed impact on performance curves remains to be fully characterized. This study aimed to further determine the impact of brief daytime periods of NREM sleep on ‘offline’ (task discontinuation after initial training) and ‘on-task’ (performance within the test session) changes in motor skill performance (finger tapping task). In a mixed design (combined parallel group and repeated measures) sleep laboratory study (n = 17 ‘active’ wake vs. sleep, n = 19 ‘passive’ wake vs. sleep), performance curves were assessed prior to and after a 90 min period containing either sleep, active or passive wakefulness. We observed a highly significant, but state- (that is, sleep/wake)-independent early offline gain and improved on-task performance after sleep in comparison to wakefulness. Exploratory curve fitting suggested that the observed sleep effect most likely emerged from an interaction of training-induced improvement and detrimental ‘time-on-task’ processes, such as fatigue. Our results indicate that brief periods of NREM sleep do not promote early offline gains but subsequent on-task performance in motor skill learning.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Polysomnography
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Audiology
Non-rapid eye movement sleep
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Learning
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Wakefulness
Motor skill
Sleep Stages
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
Brain
Electroencephalography
Motor Skills
Finger tapping
Female
Memory consolidation
Sleep (system call)
Psychology
Motor learning
Neuroscience
Psychomotor Performance
psychological phenomena and processes
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10747427
- Volume :
- 145
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bded5a11e201162c25de1f82c6b881cc