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Keeping time in your sleep: Overnight consolidation of temporal rhythm

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Lewis, Penelope A., Couch, Tom J., Walker, Matthew P.·2011·Neuropsychologia

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Temporal processing forms the basis of a vast number of human behaviours, from simple perception and action to tasks like locomotion, playing a musical instrument, and understanding language. Growing evidence suggests that these procedural skills are consolidated during sleep, however investigation of such learning has focused upon the order in which movements are made rather than their temporal dynamics. Here, we use psychophysics and neuroimaging to explore the possibility that temporal aspects of such skills are also enhanced over a period of sleep. Behaviourally, our examinations of motor (tapping a finger in time with a temporal rhythm) and perceptual (monitoring a temporal rhythm for deviants) tasks reveal post-sleep improvements in both domains. Functionally, we show that brain-state during retention (sleep or wake) modulates subsequent responses in the striatum, supplementary motor area, and lateral cerebellum during motor timing, and in the posterior hippocampus during perceptual timing. Our data support the proposal that these two forms of timing draw on different brain mechanisms, with motor timing using a more automatic system while perceptual timing of the same rhythm is more closely associated with cognitive processing.

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  • Human fMRI studies provide hints that consolidation of memories during sleep depends on hippocampal activation during prior learning.

    “Hints that consolidation of memories during sleep depend on hippocampal activation during prior learning have also been provided by human studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) (16,733,968).”

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    The Results (Experiment 2 – functional imaging; page not supplied) report greater posterior hippocampal activation after sleep during rhythm monitoring, and the Discussion interprets it as consistent with memory enhancement. The paper does not show that sleep consolidation depends on hippocampal activation during prior learning; the hippocampal response reported here was measured after sleep. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Authors
Lewis, P. A., Couch, T. J., & Walker, M. P.
Affiliations
  • University of Manchester (GB)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Lewis, Penelope A.
Venue
Neuropsychologia
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2011-01
Volume
49
Issue
1
Pages
115-123
ISSN
0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2040006552
Cited by
38
References
69
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 5
FWCI
2.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/F003048/1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
Keywords
sleep-dependent memory consolidation, temporal rhythms, motor timing, perceptual timing, rhythm perception, finger tapping, striatum, supplementary motor area, lateral cerebellum, posterior hippocampus, procedural learning
MeSH terms
Adult, Analysis of Variance, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Oxygen, Periodicity, Psychomotor Performance, Psychophysics, Sleep, Statistics as Topic, Temporal Lobe, Time Perception

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