Sleep spindles in midday naps enhance learning in preschool children

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 17267-17272

  Kurdziel, Laura ^a   Duclos, Kasey ^a   Spencer, Rebecca M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NAPPING; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REM SLEEP; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLEEP STAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAKEFULNESS;

DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84886383505     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306418110     Document Type: Article

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