ArticleNature and science of sleep2020
Comparing the Effects of Sleep and Rest on Memory Consolidation.
Article in Nature and science of sleep, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effects of wakeful rest on memory consolidation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Pooled it
- A sleep schedule incorporating naps benefits the transformation of hierarchical knowledge.Sleep · 2022Trial
- No evidence for the impact of mind wandering on recognition associative task: an on-line preregistered study.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Post-Learning Offline Pauses Support Consolidation Beyond the Mind-Wandering State.Clocks & sleep · 2026Article
- Awake targeted memory reactivation doesn't work.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Safflower Improves Memory, Learning, and Behavior in Rats Subjected to Sleep Deprivation.Cureus · 2024Article
- Assessing the Accuracy of Generative Conversational Artificial Intelligence in Debunking Sleep Health Myths: Mixed Methods Comparative Study With Expert Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Overnight neuronal plasticity and adaptation to emotional distress.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Effects of 90- and 30-min naps or a 120-min nap on alertness and performance: reanalysis of an existing pilot study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Birth of the Mammalian Sleep.Biology · 2022Review
- '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
- Mindfulness and Other Simple Neuroscience-Based Proposals to Promote the Learning Performance and Mental Health of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Memory Consolidation Is Similar in Waking and Sleep.Current sleep medicine reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionThere is ample evidence that overnight sleep and daytime naps benefit memory retention, compared to comparable amounts of active wakefulness. Yet recent evidence also suggests that a period of post-training rest (eg, quiet wakefulness with eyes closed) provides a similar memory benefit compared to wake. However, the relative benefits of sleep vs quiet waking rest on memory remain poorly understood. Here, we assessed the extent to which sleep provides a unique memory benefit, above and beyond that conferred by quiet waking rest.
methodsIn a sample of healthy undergraduate students (N=83), we tested the effect of 30 mins of post-learning sleep, rest, or active wake on concept learning (dot pattern classification) and declarative memory (word pair associates) across a 4-hr daytime training-retest interval. RESULTS AND
conclusionsContrary to our hypotheses, we found no differences in performance between the three conditions for either task. The findings are interpreted with reference to methodological considerations including the length of the experimental interval, the nature of the tasks used, and challenges inherent in creating experimental conditions that can be executed by participants.
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