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Dependence on REM Sleep of Overnight Improvement of a Perceptual Skill
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Several paradigms of perceptual learning suggest that practice can trigger long-term, experience-dependent changes in the adult visual system of humans. As shown here, performance of a basic visual discrimination task improved after a normal night's sleep. Selective disruption of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep resulted in no performance gain during a comparable sleep interval, although non-REM slow-wave sleep disruption did not affect improvement. On the other hand, deprivation of REM sleep had no detrimental effects on the performance of a similar, but previously learned, task. These results indicate that a process of human memory consolidation, active during sleep, is strongly dependent on REM sleep.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Karni, A., Tanne, D., Rubenstein, B. S., Askenasy, J. J. M., & Sagi, D.
- Affiliations
- Sheba Medical Center (IL)
- Department of Neurology and Oscar Sager Sleep Research Lab, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel.
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1994-07-29
- Volume
- 265
- Issue
- 5172
- Pages
- 679-682
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2011894996
- Cited by
- 1,002
- References
- 30
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- FWCI
- 10.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- REM sleep, perceptual learning, memory consolidation, sleep deprivation, slow-wave sleep, visual discrimination, experience-dependent plasticity
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Electrodiagnosis, Female, Form Perception, Humans, Learning, Male, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Stages, Sleep, REM
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