Sleep-dependent learning: a nap is as good as a night

By Sara C. Mednick, Ken Nakayama, Robert Stickgold. Nature Neuroscience, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Sleep, memory, and plasticity. (2006, background): “If a longer nap period is introduced, ranging from 60 to 90 minutes and containing both SWS and REM sleep, performance not only returns to baseline, but also is enhanced (Mednick et al. 2003).”
The restless engram: consolidations never end. (2012, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. propose specifically that, during SWS, slow oscillations, spindles, SWR, and low cholinergic activity all coordinate to promote the reactivation and redistribution of hippocampaldependent memories to the neocortex, thereby instantiating system consolidation.”
Sleep Quality and Academic Performance in University Students: A Wake-Up Call for College Psychologists (2010, positive): “Sleep is critical for memory consolidation, learning, decision making, and critical thinking ( Harrison & Horne, 2000 ; Mednick, Nakayama, & Stickgold, 2003 ; Pilcher & Walters, 1997 ; Smith & Lapp, 1991 ).”
Causes and consequences of sleepiness among college students (2014, positive): “In a study of non-sleep-deprived subjects, deterioration in the performance of a visual perception task occurred during the day.(95) Intervening naps of 60 or 90 minutes halted this deterioration, but only naps with both REM and slowwave sleep resulted in improvement compared to baseline.”
About sleep's role in memory. (2013, background): “, a gain in skill at a later retesting) have pointed towards an active reprocessing of skill representations occurring during sleep that sharpens the respective representations (47, 57, 147, 274, 275, 291, 322, 383, 384, 433, 582, 622, 631, 664, 665, 679, 762, 770, 808, 810, 863, 930, 1003, 1153, 11”
Sleep-dependent learning and memory consolidation. (2004, neutral): “(Mednick et al., 2003).”
Sleep and synaptic renormalization: a computational study. (2010, background): “Moreover, restoring normal learning appears to require sleep 617 (Stickgold et al. 2000; Mednick et al. 2002; Mednick et al. 2003).”
Sleep oscillations in the thalamocortical system induce long-term neuronal plasticity (2012, positive): “This is in agreement with studies on humans showing that mainly early sleep and naps, rich in slow waves, are important for memory improvement (Gais et al., 2000; Mednick et al., 2003; Nishida and Walker, 2007).”