ReviewBrain and language2017
Novel word learning in older adults: A role for sleep?
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms in post-stroke language recovery.Brain and language · 2024Review
- Sleep-dependent consolidation effects on foreign language word acquisition in a virtual reality environment.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- A Matter of Time: A Web-Based Investigation of Rest and Sleep Effects on Speech Motor Learning.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- The limits of automatic sensorimotor processing during word processing: investigations with repeated linguistic experience, memory consolidation during sleep, and rich linguistic learning contexts.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Learning new words: Memory reactivation as a mechanism for strengthening and updating a novel word's meaning.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
- Age-related changes in sleep-dependent novel word consolidation.Acta psychologica · 2022Article
- Enhancing sleep quality for nursing home residents with dementia: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of an evidence-based frontline huddling program.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- A case for the role of memory consolidation in speech-motor learning.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Review
- Enhancing Cognitive Performance of Healthy Czech Seniors through Non-Native Language Learning-A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Are There Any Cognitive Benefits of Computer-Based Foreign Language Training for Healthy Elderly People? - A Mini-Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Aphasia Recovery: When, How and Who to Treat?Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2018Review
- Learning a Foreign Language: A Review on Recent Findings About Its Effect on the Enhancement of Cognitive Functions Among Healthy Older Individuals.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Sleep behaviour relates to language skills in children with and without communication disorders.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2017Article
- Bilingualism as a strategy to delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.Clinical interventions in aging · 2017Review
- A Nap But Not Rest or Activity Consolidates Language Learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sleep is an offline period during which newly acquired semantic information is transformed into longer-lasting memories. Language acquisition, which requires new word learning and semantic integration, is preferentially benefitted by a period of sleep in children and young adults. Specific features of sleep (e.g., sleep stage characteristics) have been associated with enhanced language acquisition and generalization. However, with increasing age, even in healthy individuals, sleep quality and quantity decrease. Simultaneously, deficits in word retrieval and new word learning emerge. Yet it is unknown whether age-related alterations in language ability are linked with alterations in sleep. The goal of this review is to examine changes in language learning and sleep across the lifespan. We consider how sleep detriments that occur with aging could affect abilities to learn novel words and semantic generalization and propose hypotheses to motivate future research in this area.
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