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Motor Memory Consolidation in Sleep Shapes More Effective Neuronal Representations

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Fischer, Stefan, Nitschke, Matthias F., Melchert, Uwe H., Erdmann, Christian, Born, Jan·2005·The Journal of Neuroscience

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Learning a motor skill involves a latent process of consolidation that develops after training to enhance the skill in the absence of any practice and crucially depends on sleep. Here, we show that this latent consolidation during sleep changes the brain representation of the motor skill by reducing overall the neocortical contributions to the representation. Functional magnetic resonance brain imaging was performed during initial training and 48 h later, at retesting, on a sequential finger movement task with training followed by either a night of regular sleep or sleep deprivation. An additional night of sleep for all subjects served to rule out unspecific effects of sleep loss at retrieval testing. Posttraining sleep, but not sleep deprivation, led to improved motor skill performance at retrieval. This sleep-dependent improvement was linked to greatly reduced brain activation in prefrontal, premotor, and primary motor cortical areas, along with a stronger involvement of left parietal cortical regions. Our findings indicate that storing a motor skill during sleep reorganizes its brain representation toward enhanced efficacy.

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  • Sleep-dependent changes in brain activity indicative of reorganization of memory representations have been reported for procedural tasks like sequence finger tapping and visual texture discrimination.

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Authors
Fischer, S., Nitschke, M. F., Melchert, U. H., Erdmann, C., & Born, J.
Affiliations
University of Lübeck (DE)
Venue
The Journal of Neuroscience
Published
2005-12-07
Volume
25
Issue
49
Pages
11248-11255
ISSN
  • 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2401
OpenAlex
W2072731687
Cited by
255
References
49
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FWCI
7.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Volkswagen Foundation
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
Keywords
motor memory consolidation, sleep-dependent learning, motor skill learning, sleep deprivation, prefrontal cortex, premotor cortex, primary motor cortex, parietal cortex
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Memory, Psychomotor Performance, Sleep, Polysomnography

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