Practice with sleep makes perfect: sleep-dependent motor skill learning.

By M. P. Walker, Tiffany A. Brakefield, A. Morgan, 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, positive): “Sleep improves motor sequence learning (Walker, Stickgold, Alsop, Gaab, & Schlaug, 2005; Walker, Brakefield, Morgan, Hobson, & Stickgold, 2002), motor adaptation (Stick-gold, 2005), and goal-related sequence tasks (Albouy et al., 2013; Cohen, Pascual-Leone, Press, & Robertson, 2005).”
Neuroplasticity subserving motor skill learning (2011, neutral): “In humans, evidence for reconsolidation of motor memories also exists (Walker et al., 2003; Censor et al., 2010).”
ReviewMemory Consolidation in Sleep: Dream or Reality (2004, background): “Regarding this organization, we suggest that the highpressed in waking than sleep supports other measures indicating that the brain (or cortex) is very “activated” percentage of REM sleep in neonates serves to offset equally high amounts of SWS in newborns (see alsoin waking relative to sleep (SWS),”
Sleep-dependent motor memory plasticity in the human brain. (2005, neutral): “Furthermore, these overnight learning gains correlated with the amount of stage two non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, particularly late in the night (Walker et al., 2002).”
Causes and consequences of sleepiness among college students (2014, neutral): “Similar results were demonstrated with a finger-tapping motor task; without sleep, no significant improvement occurred.(24) All-nighter study sessions may also alter motivation and perceived effort.”
Sleep and Athletic Performance: The Effects of Sleep Loss on Exercise Performance, and Physiological and Cognitive Responses to Exercise (2015, result): “For example, several studies showed improvements in motor task tests after a night of sleep, whereas this was not the case in subjects having an equivalent period of being awake [36, 46–48].”
Learning‐dependent changes in sleep spindles and Stage 2 sleep (2006, background): “Walker et al. (2002) have reported that acquisition of a simple finger tapping sequence was improved by a night of sleep and performance was positively correlated with amount of Stage 2 in the last quarter of the night.”