Citation

Wilhelm I, Rose M, Imhof KI, Rasch B, Büechel C, Born J. Nat. Neurosci. 2013; 16(4): 391-393.

Affiliation

1] Department of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. [2] Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1038/nn.3343

PMID

23434910

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.

Language: en