Sleep enhances category learning.

By Ina Djonlagic, A. Rosenfeld, Daphna Shohamy, Catherine E. Myers, Mark A. Gluck, Robert Stickgold. 2009

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The ability to categorize objects and events in the world around us is a fundamental and critical aspect of human learning. We trained healthy adults on a probabilistic category-learning task in two different training modes. The aim of this study was to see whether either form of probabilistic category learning (feedback or observational) undergoes subsequent enhancement during sleep. Our results suggest that after training, a good night of sleep can lead to improved performance the following day on such tasks.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

Citations in the corpus

• Replay in Deep Learning: Current Approaches and Missing Biological Elements (2021, neutral): “…Mecklinger, & Levy, 2014) and abstraction (Gómez, Bootzin, & Nadel, 2006; Wagner, Gais, Haider, Verleger, & Born, 2004; Smith & Smith, 2003; Djonlagic et al., 2009; Cai, Mednick, Harrison, Kanady, & Mednick, 2009; Lewis, Knoblich, & Poe, 2018; Durrant, Cair-ney, McDermott, & Lewis, 2015)…”