ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021
Memory Reactivation during Sleep Improves Execution of a Challenging Motor Skill.
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- Effects of sleep deprivation on sports performance and perceived exertion in athletes and non-athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Pooled it
- Wakeful targeted memory reactivation during short rest periods modulates early motor learning.NPJ science of learning · 2026Article
- Song-like activation of syringeal and respiratory muscles during sleep in canaries.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
- Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on Sporting Performance in Athletes: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nature and science of sleep · 2024Review
- Contextual inference in learning and memory.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2023Review
- Improving memory via automated targeted memory reactivation during sleep.Journal of sleep research · 2022Article
- Potential interactions between cerebellar dysfunction and sleep disturbances in dystonia.Dystonia (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Memory reactivation during sleep reinforces various types of learning. Basic motor skills likely benefit from sleep. There is insufficient evidence, however, on whether memory reactivation during sleep contributes to learning how to execute a novel action. Here, we investigated motor learning in a myoelectric feedback task. Human male and female participants learned to control myoelectric activity in specific arm muscles to move a computer cursor to each of 16 locations. Each location was associated with a unique sound. Half of the sounds were played during slow-wave sleep to reactivate corresponding memories of muscle control. After sleep, movements cued during sleep were performed more quickly and efficiently than uncued movements. These results demonstrated that memory reactivation during sleep contributes to learning of action execution. We conclude that sleep supports learning novel actions, which also maps onto the learning required in certain neurorehabilitation procedures.
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