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Habitual napping moderates motor performance improvements following a short daytime nap

Milner, Catherine E., Fogel, Stuart M., Cote, Kimberly A.·2006·Biological Psychology
DOI 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.01.015
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The effect of napping on motor performance was examined in habitual and non-habitual nappers who were randomly assigned to a nap or reading condition. Motor procedural learning and auditory discrimination tasks were administered pre- and post-condition. Both groups reported improved alertness post-nap, but not post-reading. Non-habitual nappers fell asleep faster and tended to have greater sleep efficiency, but did not differ from habitual nappers on other sleep architecture variables. Habitual nappers had greater alpha and theta EEG power in stage 1, and greater delta, alpha and sigma power in stage 2 sleep. Motor performance deteriorated for non-habitual nappers who napped, but improved for all others. The number of sleep spindles and sigma power (13.5-15 Hz) significantly predicted motor performance following the nap, for habitual nappers only. Results indicate that motor learning was consolidated in a brief nap and was associated with stage 2 spindles, but only for those who habitually take naps.

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  • There is consistent evidence for an involvement of stage 2 sleep and sleep spindles in motor learning.

    “There is consistent evidence for an involvement of stage 2 sleep and sleep spindles in motor learning (139,396,822,862,921), and memory for a simple motor task is impaired after selective stage 2 sleep deprivation (1112, 1117).”

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  • Indicators of sleep spindle expression consistently correlated with the amount of overnight retention of declarative memories.

    “Furthermore, indicators of sleep spindle expression consistently correlated with the amount of overnight retention of declarative memories (86,213,214,235,446,562,822,1016,1024,1037,1044,1057).”

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Authors
Milner, C. E., Fogel, S. M., & Cote, K. A.
Affiliations
Brock University (CA)
ORCID
Fogel, Stuart M.
Venue
Biological Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-08
Volume
73
Issue
2
Pages
141-156
ISSN
0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.01.015
OpenAlex
W2009769342
Cited by
113
References
64
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Brock University
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
Keywords
daytime napping, motor performance, sleep spindles, sigma power, stage 2 sleep, sleep architecture, sleep efficiency, alertness, auditory discrimination, EEG spectral power
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Alpha Rhythm, Arousal, Attention, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Circadian Rhythm, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Female, Habits, Humans, Male, Pitch Discrimination, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Reading, Sleep, Theta Rhythm, Wakefulness, Polysomnography

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