ArticleMemory (Hove, England)2016
Consolidation of novel word learning in native English-speaking adults.
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- The effect of sleep on novel word learning in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Pooled it
- Bedding down new words: Sleep promotes the emergence of lexical competition in visual word recognition.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Trial
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- Learnability Advantage of Segmental Repetitions in Word Learning.Language and speech · 2024Article
- To sleep or not to sleep? No effect of sleep on contextual word learning in younger adults.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Sleep-dependent consolidation effects on foreign language word acquisition in a virtual reality environment.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- Illustrations of interactions needed when investigating sleep using a type of AM-PM PM-AM design.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Review
- Age-related changes in sleep-dependent novel word consolidation.Acta psychologica · 2022Article
- Atypicalities in sleep and semantic consolidation in autism.Developmental science · 2020Article
- Semantic and phonological schema influence spoken word learning and overnight consolidation.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2018Article
- Novel word learning in older adults: A role for sleep?Brain and language · 2017Review
- Sleep disturbances and their correlation with memory impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease and amnestic mild cognitive impairment.Journal of Alzheimer's disease reportsArticle
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Abstract
Sleep has been shown to improve the retention of newly learned words. However, most methodologies have used artificial or foreign language stimuli, with learning limited to word/novel word or word/image pairs. Such stimuli differ from many word-learning scenarios in which definition strings are learned with novel words. Thus, we examined sleep's benefit on learning new words within a native language by using very low-frequency words. Participants learned 45 low-frequency English words and, at subsequent recall, attempted to recall the words when given the corresponding definitions. Participants either learned in the morning with recall in the evening (wake group), or learned in the evening with recall the following morning (sleep group). Performance change across the delay was significantly better in the sleep than the wake group. Additionally, the Levenshtein distance, a measure of correctness of the typed word compared with the target word, became significantly worse following wake, whereas sleep protected correctness of recall. Polysomnographic data from a subsample of participants suggested that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep may be particularly important for this benefit. These results lend further support for sleep's function on semantic learning even for word/definition pairs within a native language.
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