Binocular disparity-based learning is retinotopically specific and independent of sleep.

ABSTRACT: Sleep supports the consolidation of recently encoded declarative and procedural memories. An important component of this effect is the repeated reactivation of neuronal ensemble activity elicited during memory encoding. For perceptual learning, however, sleep benefits have only been reported for specific tasks and it is not clear whether sleep targets low-level perceptual, higher-order temporal or attentional aspects of performance. Here, we employed a coarse binocular disparity discrimination task, known to rely on low-level stereoscopic vision. We show that human subjects improve over training and retain the same performance level across a 12-h retention period. Improvements do not generalize to other parts of the visual field and are unaffected by whether the retention period contains s

SUBMITTER: Klinzing JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7209924 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature