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Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants.

ABSTRACT: Human infants devote the majority of their time to sleeping. However, very little is known about the role of sleep in early memory processing. Here we test 6- and 12-mo-old infants' declarative memory for novel actions after a 4-h [Experiment (Exp.) 1] and 24-h delay (Exp. 2). Infants in a nap condition took an extended nap (?30 min) within 4 h after learning, whereas infants in a no-nap condition did not. A comparison with age-matched control groups revealed that after both delays, only infants who had napped after learning remembered the target actions at the test. Additionally, after the 24-h delay, memory performance of infants in the nap condition was significantly higher than that of infants in the no-nap condition. This is the first experimental evidence to our knowledge for an enhancing role of sleep in the consolidation of declarative memories in the first year of life.

SUBMITTER: Seehagen S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4321279 | biostudies-other | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants.

Seehagen Sabine S Konrad Carolin C Herbert Jane S JS Schneider Silvia S

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150112 5

Human infants devote the majority of their time to sleeping. However, very little is known about the role of sleep in early memory processing. Here we test 6- and 12-mo-old infants' declarative memory for novel actions after a 4-h [Experiment (Exp.) 1] and 24-h delay (Exp. 2). Infants in a nap condition took an extended nap (≥30 min) within 4 h after learning, whereas infants in a no-nap condition did not. A comparison with age-matched control groups revealed that after both delays, only infants ...[more]

PMID: 25583469

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