Working memory is partially preserved during sleep.
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SUBMITTER: Daltrozzo J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3517624 | biostudies-literature | 2012
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Working memory is partially preserved during sleep.
Daltrozzo Jérôme J Claude Léa L Tillmann Barbara B Bastuji Hélène H Perrin Fabien F
PloS one 20121207 12
Although several cognitive processes, including speech processing, have been studied during sleep, working memory (WM) has never been explored up to now. Our study assessed the capacity of WM by testing speech perception when the level of background noise and the sentential semantic length (SSL) (amount of semantic information required to perceive the incongruence of a sentence) were modulated. Speech perception was explored with the N400 component of the event-related potentials recorded to sen ...[more]
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