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Facilitated Recall Following RFM And NREM Naps
Author(s) -
Schoen Lawrence S.,
Badia Pietro
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1984.tb02937.x
Subject(s) - non rapid eye movement sleep , psychology , recall , morning , wakefulness , sleep (system call) , audiology , developmental psychology , slow wave sleep , eye movement , sleep onset , polysomnography , cognitive psychology , electroencephalography , insomnia , psychiatry , neuroscience , medicine , computer science , operating system
A novel procedure was used to assess (a) the differential effects of REM and SWS on retention and (b) whether these sleep stages enhanced recall for different types of information. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, subjects were given non‐meaningful and meaningful verbal learning tasks. Learning took place either early in the morning or late in the afternoon. Following learning subjects either slept or remained awake for a 2‐hr retention interval, after which recall was assessed. Sleep for morning subjects was composed of stages 1, 2 and rapid eye movement sleep while sleep for afternoon subjects was composed of stages 1, 2 and slow wave sleep. Retention for both tasks was better following periods of sleep than following periods of wakefulness but no differences in recall were observed after REM vs. NREM naps.