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Nap sleep spindle correlates of intelligence.
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- Differences in sleep spindles and polysomnography in humans: a meta-analysis on the influence of age, sex, and cognitive ability.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Review
- SPINDILOMETER: a model describing sleep spindles on EEG signals for polysomnography.Physical and engineering sciences in medicine · 2024Article
- Multivariate prediction of cognitive performance from the sleep electroencephalogram.NeuroImage · 2023Article
- The relationship between cognitive ability and BOLD activation across sleep-wake states.Brain imaging and behavior · 2022Article
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- Brain Activation Time-Locked to Sleep Spindles Associated With Human Cognitive Abilities.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Individual spindle detection and analysis in high-density recordings across the night and in thalamic stroke.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Effect of spike-timing-dependent plasticity on stochastic burst synchronization in a scale-free neuronal network.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2018Article
- Altered sleep homeostasis correlates with cognitive impairment in patients with focal epilepsy.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sleep spindles are thalamocortical oscillations in non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, that play an important role in sleep-related neuroplasticity and offline information processing. Several studies with full-night sleep recordings have reported a positive association between sleep spindles and fluid intelligence scores, however more recently it has been shown that only few sleep spindle measures correlate with intelligence in females, and none in males. Sleep spindle regulation underlies a circadian rhythm, however the association between spindles and intelligence has not been investigated in daytime nap sleep so far. In a sample of 86 healthy male human subjects, we investigated the correlation between fluid intelligence and sleep spindle parameters in an afternoon nap of 100 minutes. Mean sleep spindle length, amplitude and density were computed for each subject and for each derivation for both slow and fast spindles. A positive association was found between intelligence and slow spindle duration, but not any other sleep spindle parameter. As a positive correlation between intelligence and slow sleep spindle duration in full-night polysomnography has only been reported in females but not males, our results suggest that the association between intelligence and sleep spindles is more complex than previously assumed.
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