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SUBMITTER: Zander T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5688963 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zander Thea T Volz Kirsten G KG Born Jan J Diekelmann Susanne S
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 20171115 12
Sleep fosters the generation of explicit knowledge. Whether sleep also benefits implicit intuitive decisions about underlying patterns is unclear. We examined sleep's role in explicit and intuitive semantic coherence judgments. Participants encoded sets of three words and after a sleep or wake period were required to judge the potential convergence of these words on a common fourth associate. Compared with wakefulness, sleep increased the number of explicitly named common associates and decrease ...[more]