Posttraining Sleep Enhances Automaticity in Perceptual Discrimination

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-64

  Atienza, Mercedes ^a   Cantero, Jose L ^a   Stickgold, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MEMORY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 1642544538     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892904322755557     Document Type: Article

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