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Sleep-Dependent Facilitation of Episodic Memory Details
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While a role for sleep in declarative memory processing is established, the qualitative nature of this consolidation benefit, and the physiological mechanisms mediating it, remain debated. Here, we investigate the impact of sleep physiology on characteristics of episodic memory using an item- (memory elements) and context- (contextual details associated with those elements) learning paradigm; the latter being especially dependent on the hippocampus. Following back-to-back encoding of two word lists, each associated with a different context, participants were assigned to either a Nap-group, who obtained a 120-min nap, or a No Nap-group. Six hours post-encoding, participants performed a recognition test involving item-memory and context-memory judgments. In contrast to item-memory, which demonstrated no between-group differences, a significant benefit in context-memory developed in the Nap-group, the extent of which correlated both with the amount of stage-2 NREM sleep and frontal fast sleep-spindles. Furthermore, a difference was observed on the basis of word-list order, with the sleep benefit and associated physiological correlations being selective for the second word-list, learned last (most proximal to sleep). These findings suggest that sleep may preferentially benefit contextual (hippocampal-dependent) aspects of memory, supported by sleep-spindle oscillations, and that the temporal order of initial learning differentially determines subsequent offline consolidation.
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“In children and adults, spindle number and density strongly correlate with IQ scores (106, 395, 439, 847, 1038, 1039) as well as overnight retention of memories (213, 1057, 1230).”
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“Moreover, spindles (13-15 Hz) during a postlearning nap predicted sleepdependent memory improvement for contextual aspects of episodic memories known to most closely depend on the hippocampal function (1230).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- van der Helm, E., Gujar, N., Nishida, M., & Walker, M. P.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Tokyo Medical and Dental University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Walker, Matthew P.
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2011-11-17
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- e27421
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3219667
- OpenAlex
- W2150174546
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 6.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG031164)
- 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, episodic memory, contextual memory, item memory, hippocampus, NREM sleep, sleep spindles, frontal lobe, recognition memory, declarative memory
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Female, Hippocampus, Humans, Learning, Male, Sleep, Wakefulness, Young Adult, Memory, Episodic
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