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Article: REM Sleep and Visuo-Motor Skill Learning: A Correlational Study
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- Sleep and Hypnosis
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Kure Iletism Grubu A.S. 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A considerable amount of studies have shown that sleep facilitates memory consolidation. For procedural memory, some findings support the association with REM sleep but other studies linked motor learning with stage 2 sleep. The present study investigated the relationship between sleep physiology and a procedural task (mirror tracing) involving visual and motor learning. The results indicate that overnight improvement is related to the amount of REM sleep but not to any other sleep stage and thus complement the findings obtained by a REM deprivation study and an early/late night deprivation study. Future research should aim at identifying the underlying mechanisms and the brain areas which ...
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