Comparing the effects of nocturnal sleep and daytime napping on declarative memory consolidation.

Nocturnal sleep and daytime napping facilitate memory consolidation for semantically related and unrelated word pairs. We contrasted forgetting of both kinds of materials across a 12-hour interval involving either nocturnal sleep or daytime wakefulness (experiment 1) and a 2-hour interval involving...

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Main Authors: June C Lo, Derk-Jan Dijk, John A Groeger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4168137?pdf=render