1. Motor memory: Consolidation–based enhancement effect revisited
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Alain Simard, Julie Carrier, Amélie Morin, Habib Benali, Julien Doyon, Abdallah Hadj Tahar, and Leslie G. Ungerleider
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Behavioral Neuroscience ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,Consolidation (soil) ,Physiology ,Psychology ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Following Karni's seminal work, Walker and other researchers have recently provided gradually convincing evidence that sleep is critical for the consolidation-based enhancement (CBE) of motor sequence learning. Studies in our laboratory using a motor adaptation paradigm, however, show that CBE can also occur after the simple passage of time, suggesting that sleep effects on memory consolidation are task-related, and possibly dependent on anatomically dissociable circuits.
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- 2005
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