Overnight verbal memory retention correlates with the number of sleep spindles
@article{Clemens2005OvernightVM,
title={Overnight verbal memory retention correlates with the number of sleep spindles},
author={Zs{\'o}fia Clemens and D{\'a}niel Fab{\'o} and P{\'e}ter Hal{\'a}sz},
journal={Neuroscience},
year={2005},
volume={132},
pages={529-535}
}
Despite strong evidence supporting a role for sleep in the consolidation of newly acquired declarative memories, the contribution of specific sleep stages remains controversial. Based on electrophysiological studies in animals, synchronous sleep oscillations have been long proposed as possible origins of sleep-related memory improvement. Nevertheless, no studies to date have directly investigated the impact of sleep oscillations on overnight memory retention in humans. In the present study we… CONTINUE READING