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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01368/full |