Cognitive flexibility across the sleep-wake cycle: REM-sleep enhancement of anagram problem solving.

By Matthew P. Walker, Conor Liston, J. Allan Hobson, Robert Stickgold. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Replay in Deep Learning: Current Approaches and Missing Biological Elements (2021, neutral): “, 2007), 2) it assimilates new memories into existing networks (Walker et al., 2002b; Stickgold et al., 1999; Dumay and Gaskell, 2007), and 3) it abstracts high-level schemas and generalizations to unlearn biased or irrelevant representations (Gómez et al.”
Sleep-dependent learning and memory consolidation. (2004, unknown): “consider Stickgold et al., 2000a, 2000c; Walker et al., 2002a, 2003b) ,”
Overnight Alchemy: Sleep-dependent Memory Evolution (2010, background): “Subjects can solve 30% more anagram word puzzles following awakenings from REM sleep than after non-REM (NREM) awakening”
Working in our sleep (2012, background): “Thus, poor sleep quality disrupts the natural cycle of proceeding through different phases of sleep, each of which has important restorative functions on various outcomes (Punjabi et al., 2002; Smith, 1997; Tucker et al., 2006; Walker et al., 2002).”
The Role of Sleep in Cognition and Emotion (2009, background): “Quantitative data have further demonstrated that solution performance on tests of cognitive flexibility using anagram word puzzles is more than 30% better following awakenings from REM sleep compared with NREM awakenings (Walker et al. 2002).”
Sleep, memory, and plasticity. (2006, background): “…not exclusively, during sleep, either restoring previously lost memories (Fenn et al. 2003) or producing additional learning (Fischer et al. 2002; Gais et al. 2000; Karni et al. 1994; Korman et al. 2003; Stickgold et al. 2000a,b; Walker et al. 2002a,b), both without the need for further practice.”
Having a creative day: understanding entrepreneurs’ daily idea generation through a recovery lens (2018, background): “For instance, an experiment showed that after nocturnal sleep, participants could solve a cognitive task better than after nocturnal or daytime wakefulness (Wagner et al., 2004).”