Encoding difficulty promotes postlearning changes in sleep spindle activity during napping

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 8976-8982

  Schmidt, Christina ^a,b   Peigneux, Philippe ^b   Muto, Vincenzo ^c   Schenkel, Maja ^a   Knoblauch, Vera ^a   Münch, Mirjam ^a   De Quervain, Dominique J F ^d   Wirz Justice, Anna ^a   Cajochen, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Daytime sleep; Declarative memory; EEG; Encoding difficulty; Human; Sleep spindles

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NIGHT SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP SPINDLE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MELATONIN; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; OSCILLOMETRY; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 33748272876     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2464-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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