The sleeping child outplays the adult's capacity to convert implicit into explicit knowledge

Ines Wilhelm; Michael Rose; Kathrin I. Imhof; Björn Rasch; Christian Büchel; Jan Born

doi:10.1038/nn.3343

The sleeping child outplays the adult's capacity to convert implicit into explicit knowledge

Ines Wilhelm^*, Michael Rose, Kathrin I. Imhof, Björn Rasch, Christian Büchel, Jan Born

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Abstract

When sleep followed implicit training on a motor sequence, children showed greater gains in explicit sequence knowledge after sleep than adults. This greater explicit knowledge in children was linked to their higher sleep slow-wave activity and to stronger hippocampal activation at explicit knowledge retrieval. Our data indicate the superiority of children in extracting invariant features from complex environments, possibly as a result of enhanced reprocessing of hippocampal memory representations during slow-wave sleep.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature Neuroscience
Volume	16
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	391-393
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1097-6256
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3343
Publication status	Published - 04.2013

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The authors are grateful to S. Diekelmann, S. Groch, T. Ole Bergmann, K. Mueller, K. Wendt, T. Kraemer, H. Neumeyer, M. Menz, A. Marschner, G. Feld and D. McMakin for technical support and helpful discussions. This study was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 654 ‘Plasticity and Sleep’).

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