The Limited Capacity of Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation

Sleep supports memory consolidation. However, the conceptually important influence of the amount of items encoded in a memory test on this effect has not been investigated. In two experiments, participants (n=101) learned lists of word-pairs varying in length (40, 160, 320 word-pairs) in the evening...

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Main Authors: Gordon B Feld, Patrick Weis, Jan Born
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01368/full