ArticleNPJ science of learning2019
Effects of targeted memory reactivation during sleep at home depend on sleep disturbances and habituation.
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- Targeted memory reactivation with sleep disruption does not weaken week-old memories.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Comparing targeted memory reactivation during slow wave sleep and sleep stage 2.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- An update on recent advances in targeted memory reactivation during sleep.NPJ science of learning · 2024Review
- Targeted memory reactivation during sleep influences social bias as a function of slow-oscillation phase and delta power.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- Sleep disruption by memory cues selectively weakens reactivated memories.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Presenting rose odor during learning, sleep and retrieval helps to improve memory consolidation: a real-life study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Improving memory via automated targeted memory reactivation during sleep.Journal of sleep research · 2022Article
- Shaping overnight consolidation via slow-oscillation closed-loop targeted memory reactivation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep.NPJ science of learning · 2022Article
- Targeted Memory Reactivation During REM Sleep in Patients With Social Anxiety Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Memory loss at sleep onset.Cerebral cortex communications · 2022Article
- Does memory reactivation during sleep support generalization at the cost of memory specifics?Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2021Article
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Abstract
Targeted memory reactivation (TMR) during sleep improves memory consolidation. However, it is still unknown whether TMR also benefits memory in real-life conditions. We tested whether TMR during sleep enhances Dutch-German vocabulary learning when applied during multiple nights at home in an unsupervised fashion. During 3 consecutive nights, 66 healthy young participants used an mp3-player to play Dutch words during sleep, without any control of sleep or awakenings by tones (unsupervised TMR). Unsupervised TMR benefitted overall memory scores only in a subgroup of participants, who reported no disturbances by TMR during sleep. Participants who reported general disturbances of sleep showed no benefit, while TMR specifically impaired memory in a third group who reported specific disturbances by the played words during sleep. Separate analysis per night indicated that memory benefits by TMR were significant in the entire sample in the third night only. Our results indicate that sleep disturbances and habituation might be critical factors for the success of unsupervised TMR in a home setting. Habituation to the TMR process as well as automatic sleep monitoring and avoidance of auditory-induced awakenings might be a precondition to successful application of TMR to language learning in real-life.
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