0086 Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory For A Cognitive Strategy But Not The Implicit Motor Skills Needed To Acquire It
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Abstract
Sleep is beneficial for consolidation of both “cognitive procedural memory” (CPM) and “simple procedural memory” (SPM). CPM involves the acquisition of a novel cognitive strategy through the execution of a series of motor movements. By contrast, SPM involves motor skills learning of a cognitively simple sequence of movements. Sleep has been implicated in the consolidation of implicit CPM, whereas the role of sleep in implicit SPM remains unclear. The present study compared the differential benefit of sleep for CPM vs. implicit SPM consolidation. To disentangle and directly compare SPM to CPM, subjects were tested on: (1) the “classic” Tower of Hanoi task (ToH), where the solution requires the use of both recursive elements (i.e., a repetitive series of movements, thus involving SPM) and non-recursive elements (i.e., a non-repetitive series of movements that can only be learned by acquiring the underlying cognitive strategy, thus involving CPM); and (2) a “modified” version of the ToH, akin to the serial reaction time (SRT) task, designed to prevent the acquisition of a cognitive strategy, thus isolating the SPM component of the task. Participants (n=57) were trained on either the ToH or SRT, then retested on both tasks. Half were trained in the evening, retested after a night of sleep, and again after a day of wake (PM-AM-PM). The other half were counterbalanced (AM-PM-AM). The time taken to complete the ToH improved following sleep vs. wake from training to retest (F(2,52)=3.22,p=0.048), but not for the SRT (F(2,54)=0.324,p=0.725). Follow-up tests revealed that performance improved only for the ToH after sleep - and only after sleep - either immediately after training, or one day later. Moreover, sleep significantly enhanced the non-recursive elements but not the recursive elements of the ToH, but not the SRT. Sleep preferentially supported CPM, whereas implicit SPM improved regardless of sleep or wake. These results suggest sleep benefits the cognitive aspects of procedural memory, rather than strengthening implicitly acquired motor sequences involved to learn the strategy itself. N/A
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
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