Sleep-dependent learning: A nap is as good as a night

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 697-698

  Mednick, Sara ^a   Nakayama, Ken ^a   Stickgold, Robert ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; REST; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038081109     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1078     Document Type: Article

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