Sleep accelerates the improvement in working memory performance

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 40, 2008, Pages 10145-10150

  Kuriyama, Kenichi ^a   Mishima, Kazuo ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^a   Aritake, Sayaka ^a   Uchiyama, Makoto ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Memory consolidation; n back task; Skill learning; Sleep; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAKEFULNESS; WORKING MEMORY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SLEEP;

EID: 54049153930     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2039-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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