Naps Promote Abstraction in Language-Learning Infants
By Rebecca L. Gómez, R. Bootzin, Lynn Nadel. 2006
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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology
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- Replay in Deep Learning: Current Approaches and Missing Biological Elements (2021, neutral): “…& Hobson, 1999; Dumay & Gaskell, 2007), and (3) abstracts high-level schemas and generalizations to unlearn biased or irrelevant representations (Gómez et al., 2006; Wagner, Gais, Haider, Verleger, & Born, 2004; Smith & Smith, 2003; Djon-lagic et al., 2009; Cai, Mednick, Harrison, Kanady, &…”
- About sleep's role in memory. (2013, background): “Sleep likewise promoted grammar-related abstraction processes in language learning tasks in infants (469, 589).”
- Overnight Alchemy: Sleep-dependent Memory Evolution (2010, background): “Infants exposed to an artificial grammar consisting of non-sense three-syllable 'words' display awareness of the abstracted grammatical rules embedded in the stimuli following a nap, but not after an equivalent time period awak”
- Sleep‐dependent selective imitation in infants (2019, methodology): “Infants in the nap condition had to sleep a minimum of 30 uninterrupted minutes within 4 hr after encoding to be included in the analyses (Gomez et al., 2006; Seehagen et al., 2015).”
- Sleep for cognitive enhancement (2014, background): “…agonist clonidine blocks the improvement of memory for odors Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience www.frontiersin.org April 2014 | Volume 8 | Article 46 | 5 (Gais et al., 2011) as well as the enhancement of emotional over neutral memories that is typically observed after sleep (Groch et al., 2011).”
- The Role of Sleep in Cognition and Emotion (2009, background): “In a related study by Gomez and colleagues (Gomez et al. 2006), infants were exposed to “phrases” from an artificial language during a learning session—for example, phrases like “pel–wadim–jic”—until the infants became familiar (as indexed by look responses).”