Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants

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

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1625-1629

  Seehagen, Sabine ^a   Konrad, Carolin ^a   Herbert, Jane S ^b   Schneider, Silvia ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Daytime naps; Deferred imitation; Infant development; Sleep dependent memory

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; MEMORY; SLEEP;

HUMANS; INFANT; MEMORY; SLEEP;

EID: 84922253089     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414000112     Document Type: Article

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