Relational memory: A daytime nap facilitates the abstraction of general concepts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Lau, Hiuyan ^a,b   Alger, Sara E ^a   Fishbein, William ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME NAP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RELATIONAL MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SLEEP; SLEEP PARAMETERS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; LINGUISTICS; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81155153642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027139     Document Type: Article

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