ArticleScientific reports2020
The power of children's sleep - Improved declarative memory consolidation in children compared with adults.
Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Role of Sleep in Memory Consolidation and Reading in Dyslexia.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Association between theta-band resting-state functional connectivity and declarative memory abilities in children.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Effects of Sleep on Language and Motor Consolidation: Evidence of Domain General and Specific Mechanisms.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Sleep and human cognitive development.Sleep medicine reviews · 2021Review
- Which are the Central Aspects of Infant Sleep? The Dynamics of Sleep Composites across Infancy.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Post-learning slow wave sleep (SWS) is known to support declarative memory consolidation. As SWS is more abundant in young population, we suggested that sleep-dependent memory consolidation processes could occur at a faster pace in school-aged children. After learning new associations between non-objects and their functions, retrieval performance was tested in 30 children (7-12 years) and 34 adults (20-30 years) during an immediate (IR) and a delayed retrieval (DR) session separated by either a Sleep or a Wake condition. Sleep led to stabilized memory retrieval performance only in children, not in adults, whereas no age-related difference was observed after a similar period of wakefulness. Hence, our results suggest more efficient sleep-dependent declarative memory consolidation processes in children compared with adults, an effect potentially ascribed to more abundant and deeper SWS during childhood.
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