ArticleiScience2023
Sleep-related motor skill consolidation and generalizability after physical practice, motor imagery, and action observation.
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- Early sleep after action observation and motor imagery improved manual dexterity in patients after surgery for metacarpal and phalangeal fractures.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Daytime sleep following observational practice does not enhance a visual-spatial and a motor representation.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Temporal sleep spindle clustering and slow-oscillation coupling in motor memory consolidation and generalization.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Systems memory consolidation during sleep: oscillations, neuromodulators, and synaptic remodeling.BMB reports · 2025Review
- Local thalamic interneurons drive spindle termination and enable sleep-dependent learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Impact of spindle-inspired transcranial alternating current stimulation during a nap on sleep-dependent motor memory consolidation in healthy older adults.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Sleep architecture and quality and pain experience in individuals with persistent low back pain and asymptomatic controls.PloS one · 2025Article
- Differential expression of spatiotemporal sleep spindle clusters in aging.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Sequence-specific delayed gains in motor fluency evolve after movement observation training in the absence of early sleep.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Temporal cluster-based organization of sleep spindles underlies motor memory consolidation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Effects of motor imagery training on generalization and retention for different task difficulties.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Sleep benefits the consolidation of motor skills learned by physical practice, mainly through periodic thalamocortical sleep spindle activity. However, motor skills can be learned without overt movement through motor imagery or action observation. Here, we investigated whether sleep spindle activity also supports the consolidation of non-physically learned movements. Forty-five electroencephalographic sleep recordings were collected during a daytime nap after motor sequence learning by physical practice, motor imagery, or action observation. Our findings reveal that a temporal cluster-based organization of sleep spindles underlies motor memory consolidation in all groups, albeit with distinct behavioral outcomes. A daytime nap offers an early sleep window promoting the retention of motor skills learned by physical practice and motor imagery, and its generalizability toward the inter-manual transfer of skill after action observation. Findings may further have practical impacts with the development of non-physical rehabilitation interventions for patients having to remaster skills following peripherical or brain injury.
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