Young and Older Adults Benefit From Sleep, but Not From Active Wakefulness for Memory Consolidation of What-Where-When Naturalistic Events

Young and Older Adults Benefit From Sleep, but Not From Active Wakefulness for Memory Consolidation of What-Where-When Naturalistic Events

An extensive psychological literature shows that sleep actively promotes human episodic memory (EM) consolidation in younger adults. However, evidence for the benefit of sleep for EM consolidation in aging is still elusive. In addition, most of the previous studies used EM assessments that are very...

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Main Authors: Kouloud Abichou, Valentina La Corte, Nicolas Hubert, Eric Orriols, Alexandre Gaston-Bellegarde, Serge Nicolas, Pascale Piolino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Subjects:
episodic memory
binding
What-Where-When task
consolidation
sleep
awake active state
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnagi.2019.00058/full

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