Daytime naps, motor memory consolidation and regionally specific sleep spindles.

Increasing evidence demonstrates that motor-skill memories improve across a night of sleep, and that non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep commonly plays a role in orchestrating these consolidation enhancements. Here we show the benefit of a daytime nap on motor memory consolidation and its relationsh...

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Main Authors: Masaki Nishida, Matthew P Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1828623?pdf=render