Sleep to find your way: The role of sleep in the consolidation of memory for navigation in humans

@article{Ferrara2008SleepTF,
  title={Sleep to find your way: The role of sleep in the consolidation of memory for navigation in humans},
  author={Michele Ferrara and Giuseppe Iaria and Daniela Tempesta and Giuseppe Curcio and Fabio Moroni and Cristina Marzano and Luigi De Gennaro and Claudio Pacitti},
  journal={Hippocampus},
  year={2008},
  volume={18}
}
Although a large body of evidence indicates that sleep plays an important role in learning and memory processes, the actual existence of a sleep‐dependent spatial memory consolidation has been not firmly established. Here, by using a computerized 3D virtual navigation tool, we were able to show that topographical orientation in humans largely benefits from sleep after learning, while 10 h of wakefulness during the daytime do not exert similar beneficial effects. In particular, navigation… 
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