Sleep Strengthens but does Not Reorganize Memory Traces in a Verbal Creativity Task
Author(s) -
Nina Landmann,
Marion Kühn,
Jonathan-Gabriel Maier,
Bernd Feige,
Kai Spiegelhalder,
Dieter Riemann,
Christoph Nissen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.5665/sleep.5556
Subject(s) - psychology , creativity , sleep deprivation , sleep (system call) , wakefulness , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , content addressable memory , cognition , developmental psychology , social psychology , electroencephalography , neuroscience , computer science , artificial intelligence , management , artificial neural network , economics , operating system
Sleep after learning promotes the quantitative strengthening of new memories. Less is known about the impact of sleep on the qualitative reorganization of memory content. This study tested the hypothesis that sleep facilitates both memory strengthening and reorganization as indexed by a verbal creativity task.
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