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Remembering to Execute a Goal: Sleep on It!
Abstract
Remembering to execute deferred goals (prospective memory) is a ubiquitous memory challenge, and one that is often not successfully accomplished. Could sleeping after goal encoding promote later execution? We evaluated this possibility by instructing participants to execute a prospective memory goal after a short delay (20 min), a 12-hr wake delay, or a 12-hr sleep delay. Goal execution declined after the 12-hr wake delay relative to the short delay. In contrast, goal execution was relatively preserved after the 12-hr sleep delay relative to the short delay. The sleep-enhanced goal execution was not accompanied by a decline in performance of an ongoing task in which the prospective memory goal was embedded, which suggests that the effect was not a consequence of attentional resources being reallocated from the ongoing task to the prospective memory goal. Our results suggest that consolidation processes active during sleep increase the probability that a goal will be spontaneously retrieved and executed.
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“Sleep has also been proposed to especially benefit memory for information needed in the near future [[23] although see Wamsley et al. [24]], and intentions to perform specific actions in the future [25, 26].”
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“Similar to the preferential influence on relevant memories, sleep after encoding benefited the memory to perform an intended action at a designated time (298, 1056), suggesting an enhancing effect of sleep also on prospective memory for future plans.”
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“A third factor that was consistently found to favor the sleepdependent strengthening of a memory is the relevance of an encoded memory for an individual's future plans (218,298,380,1056,1236,1319).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Scullin, M. K., & McDaniel, M. A.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Scullin, Michael K.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-06-02
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1028-1035
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2158528169
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 36
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- 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 10.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- prospective memory, sleep, memory consolidation, spontaneous retrieval, attentional resources, task embeddings
- MeSH terms
- Analysis of Variance, Goals, Humans, Memory, Memory, Short-Term, Semantics, Sleep, Students, Task Performance and Analysis, Time Factors
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