ArticleNeurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms2019
Does working memory improvement benefit from sleep in older adults?
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- Daytime Napping and Cognitive Health in Older Adults: A Systematic Review.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023Pooled it
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- Assessing the Impact of Different Social Media Video Content Formats on Sustained Attention and Working Memory.Annals of neurosciences · 2026Article
- The Space-Time Organisation of Sleep Slow Oscillations as Potential Biomarker for Hypersomnolence.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
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- The Mixed Role of Sleep and Time of Day in Working Memory Performance of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Functional Training and Dual-Task Training Improve the Executive Function of Older Women.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Understanding the roles of central and autonomic activity during sleep in the improvement of working memory and episodic memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The Role of Working Memory in Age-Related Emotional Memory Bias.Affective science · 2022Article
- Effects of Multisession Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Long-term Memory and Working Memory in Older Adults.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Editorial: The impact of age-related changes in brain network organization and sleep on memory.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Zolpidem Maintains Memories for Negative Emotions Across a Night of Sleep.Affective science · 2022Article
- Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Post-training stimulation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impairs working memory training performance.Journal of neuroscience research · 2021Article
- 'Sleep-dependent' memory consolidation? Brief periods of post-training rest and sleep provide an equivalent benefit for both declarative and procedural memory.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Self-Reported Sleep and Executive Function in Early Primary School Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Short Duration Repetitive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation During Sleep Enhances Declarative Memory of Facts.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Working Memory (WM), is an important factor influencing many higher-order cognitive functions that decline with age. Repetitive training appears to increase WM, yet the mechanisms underlying this improvement are not understood. Sleep has been shown to benefit long-term memory formation and may also play a role in WM enhancement in young adults. However, considering age-related decline in sleep, it is uninvestigated whether sleep will facilitate WM in older adults. In the present work, we investigated the impact of a nap, quiet wakefulness (QW) and active wakefulness (AW) on within-day training on the Operation Span (OSPAN) task in older adults. Improvement in WM was found following a nap and QW, but not active wake. Furthermore, better WM was associated with shared electrophysiological features, including slow oscillation (SO, 0.5-1 Hz) power in both the nap and QW, and greater coupling between SO and sigma (12-15 Hz) in the nap. In summary, our data suggest that WM improvement in older adults occurs opportunistically during offline periods that afford enhancement in slow oscillation power, and that further benefits may come with cross-frequency coupling of neural oscillations during sleep.
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