Time of day accounts for overnight improvement in sequence learning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 669-672

  Keisler, Aysha ^a   Ashe, James ^b,c   Willingham, Daniel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35448945581     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.751807     Document Type: Article

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