Sleep spindle‐related activity in the human EEG and its relation to general cognitive and learning abilities
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Stage 2 sleep spindles have been previously viewed as useful markers for the development and integrity of the CNS and were more currently linked to ‘offline re‐processing’ of implicit as well as explicit memory traces. Additionally, it had been discussed if spindles might be related to a more general learning or cognitive ability. In the present multicentre study we examined the relationship of automatically detected slow (< 13 Hz) and fast (> 13 Hz) stage 2 sleep spindles with: (i) the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (testing ‘general cognitive ability’); as well as (ii) the Wechsler Memory scale‐revised (evaluating memory in various subdomains). Forty‐eight healthy subjects slept three times (separated by 1 week) for a whole night in a sleep laboratory with complete polysomnographic montage. Whereas the first night only served adaptation and screening purposes, the two remaining nights were preceded either by an implicit mirror‐tracing or an explicit word‐pair association learning or (corresponding) control task. Robust relationships of slow and fast sleep spindles with both cognitive as well as memory abilities were found irrespectively of whether learning occurred before sleep. Based on the present findings we suggest that besides being involved in shaping neuronal networks after learning, sleep spindles do reflect important aspects of efficient cortical‐subcortical connectivity, and are thereby linked to cognitive‐ and memory‐related abilities alike.
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Other studies revealed greater benefits from sleep for strongly encoded memories or only in well-performing subjects.
“On the other hand, other studies revealed greater benefits from sleep for strongly encoded memories (523, 1172) or only in well-performing subjects (1038, 1215).”
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In children and adults, spindle number and density strongly correlate with IQ scores and overnight retention of memories.
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- Authors
- Schabus, M., Hödlmoser, K., Gruber, G., Sauter, C., Anderer, P., Klösch, G., Parapatics, S., Saletu, B., Klimesch, W., & Zeitlhofer, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Salzburg (AT)
- Medical University of Vienna (AT)
- Corresponding author
- Schabus, M.
- Venue
- European Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1738-1746
- ISSN
- 0953-816X (ISSN-L)
- 1460-9568
- OpenAlex
- W1558683582
- Cited by
- 261
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 18
- FWCI
- 4.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- European Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Keywords
- sleep spindles, stage 2 sleep, general intelligence, memory, learning, cortical-subcortical connectivity, sleep-dependent memory consolidation, mirror tracing, word pair association
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Cognition, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Learning, Memory, Sleep, Sleep Stages
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