ArticleScientific reports2020
Averaging sleep spindle occurrence in dogs predicts learning performance better than single measures.
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- The effect of arousal during and post-training on memory consolidation in detection dogs.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Anesthetic spindles serve as EEG markers of the depth variations in anesthesia induced by multifarious general anesthetics in mouse experiments.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Owner-rated hyperactivity/impulsivity is associated with sleep efficiency in family dogs: a non-invasive EEG study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Two valid and reliable tests for monitoring age-related memory performance and neophobia differences in dogs.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Working Dog Training for the Twenty-First Century.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021Review
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Abstract
Although a positive link between sleep spindle occurrence and measures of post-sleep recall (learning success) is often reported for humans and replicated across species, the test-retest reliability of the effect is sometimes questioned. The largest to date study could not confirm the association, however methods for automatic spindle detection diverge in their estimates and vary between studies. Here we report that in dogs using the same detection method across different learning tasks is associated with observing a positive association between sleep spindle density (spindles/minute) and learning success. Our results suggest that reducing measurement error by averaging across measurements of density and learning can increase the visibility of this effect, implying that trait density (estimated through averaged occurrence) is a more reliable predictor of cognitive performance than estimates based on single measures.
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