Posttraining increases in REM sleep intensity implicate REM sleep in memory processing and provide a biological marker of learning potential

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 714-719

  Smith, Carlyle T ^a   Nixon, Margaret R ^a   Nader, Rebecca S ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SLEEP, REM;

EID: 10044235418     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.74904     Document Type: Article

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