Midlife decline in declarative memory consolidation is correlated with a decline in slow wave sleep

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 336-341

  Backhaus, Jutta ^a   Born, Jan ^a   Hoeckesfeld, Ralf ^a   Fokuhl, Sylvia ^a   Hohagen, Fritz ^a   Junghanns, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LIFESPAN; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SLEEP STAGES; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 34247557415     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.470507     Document Type: Article

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