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Sleep-dependent memory consolidation – What can be learnt from children?

Wilhelm, I., Prehn-Kristensen, A., Born, J.·2012·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Abstract

Extensive research has been accumulated demonstrating that sleep is essential for processes of memory consolidation in adults. In children and infants, a great capacity to learn and to memorize coincides with longer and more intense sleep. Here, we review the available data on the influence of sleep on memory consolidation in healthy children and infants, as well as in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a model of prefrontal impairment, and consider possible mechanisms underlying age-dependent differences. Findings indicate a major role of slow wave sleep (SWS) for processes of memory consolidation during early development. Importantly, longer and deeper SWS during childhood appears to produce a distinctly superior strengthening of hippocampus-dependent declarative memories, but concurrently prevents an immediate benefit from sleep for procedural memories, as typically observed in adults. Studies of ADHD children point toward an essential contribution of prefrontal cortex to the preferential consolidation of declarative memory during SWS. Developmental studies of sleep represent a particularly promising approach for characterizing the supra-ordinate control of memory consolidation during sleep by prefrontal-hippocampal circuitry underlying the encoding of declarative memory.

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  • Sleep-induced extraction of explicit sequence knowledge from implicitly trained SRTT is particularly pronounced in children and correlated with enhanced EEG slow oscillation activity during posttraining sleep.

    “The sleepinduced extraction of explicit sequence knowledge from an implicitly trained SRTT was particularly pronounced in children, where this extraction process was correlated with enhanced EEG slow oscillation activity during posttraining sleep (1321).”

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  • Strengthening of ventromedial prefrontal cortical connections might be particularly important for sleep-induced gain of explicit memory.

    “For this sleep-induced gain of explicit memory, the strengthening of ventromedial prefrontal cortical connections might be particularly important (256, 1321).”

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  • According to active system consolidation, processes during SWS supporting redistribution of memories from temporary hippocampal to extrahippocampal long-term storage sites do not only strengthen memory representations, but also bring about qualitative transformations, manifesting behaviorally in increased knowledge about invariant repeating and relevant features in learned materials.

    “According to this concept, processes during SWS supporting the redistribution of memories from temporary hippocampal to extrahippocampal long-term storage sites, do not only strengthen these memory representations, but also bring about qualitative transformations, manifesting themselves behaviorally in increased knowledge about invariant repeating and relevant features in the learned materials.”

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  • Findings of a facilitating effect of sleep during development on generation of hippocampus-dependent explicit knowledge about sequences and grammatical rules are well in line with the assumption of an active system consolidation established during sleep.

    “Together, the findings of a facilitating effect of sleep during development on the generation of hippocampus-dependent explicit knowledge about sequences and grammatical rules are well in line with the assumption of an active system consolidation established during sleep (293,1321,1327).”

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Authors
Wilhelm, I., Prehn-Kristensen, A., & Born, J.
Affiliations
University of Tübingen (DE)
Corresponding author
Wilhelm, I.
Venue
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-08
Volume
36
Issue
7
Pages
1718-1728
ISSN
0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1988263828
Cited by
161
References
108
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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
sleep-dependent memory consolidation, children, infants, slow-wave sleep, declarative memory, procedural memory, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, memory encoding
MeSH terms
Animals, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Brain, Child, Preschool, Humans, Infant, Memory, Sleep, Sleep Stages

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