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Offline consolidation of procedural skill learning is enhanced by negative emotional content

Javadi, Amir Homayoun, Walsh, Vincent, Lewis, Penelope A.·2011·Experimental Brain Research

Abstract

It is now well established that both procedural skills and episodic memories consolidate across periods of offline retention, and most particularly across periods of sleep. Such consolidation has been demonstrated to be more marked for emotional than for neutral episodes, but the interaction between emotionality and the offline consolidation of procedural skills has yet to be investigated. Here, we address this issue by examining the impact of an emotional background context at encoding upon the subsequent consolidation of mirror tracing, a well-studied procedural skill. We also consider the importance of sleep for such consolidation by manipulating the retention interval (over a day, overnight, or over 24 h containing normal sleep). Our data show significantly greater offline improvements in the accuracy of mirror tracing when negative emotional content is present during the training phase when compared to when neutral or positive content is present. Furthermore, consolidation across a night of sleep is associated with faster and more accurate performance than consolidation across a day of wakefulness. These novel findings show that the emotional context in which a procedural skill is learned can impact upon subsequent offline consolidation.

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  • Some studies demonstrated that sleep preferentially consolidates emotional over neutral memories.

    “Some studies indeed demonstrated that sleep preferentially consolidates emotional over neutral memories (574,602,861,896,898,1276); however, others failed to reveal such effects (60,168,732,1147,1148).”

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  • Compared with item memory, context memory is particularly sensitive to beneficial effects of sleep.

    “In addition, some human studies revealed that, compared with item memory, context memory, a core function of the hippocampus, is particularly sensitive to the beneficial effects of sleep (602,732,1128,1230).”

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Authors
Javadi, A. H., Walsh, V., & Lewis, P. A.
Affiliations
  • University College London (GB)
  • University of Manchester (GB)
Corresponding author
Javadi, Amir Homayoun
Venue
Experimental Brain Research
Published
2010-12-01
Volume
208
Issue
4
Pages
507-517
ISSN
  • 0014-4819 (ISSN-L)
  • 1432-1106
OpenAlex
W1971796189
Cited by
26
References
84
Citations by year
2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
0.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Experimental Brain Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
  • Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/F003048/1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
offline consolidation, emotional context, negative emotions, mirror tracing, sleep-dependent memory consolidation, retention interval, emotional memory, motor skill learning
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Circadian Rhythm, Emotions, Eye Movements, Female, Fingers, Humans, Functional Laterality, Learning, Male, Memory, Motor Skills, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Sleep, Young Adult

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