Sleep is associated with offline improvement of motor sequence skill in children
| Autor: | Satoshi Tanaka, Hitoshi Uchiyama, Sho K. Sugawara, Ayumi Seki, Shuntaro Okazaki, Norihiro Sadato, Tastuya Koeda, Daisuke Tanaka |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Physiology education Poison control lcsh:Medicine Audiology Task (project management) Correlation Human Learning Injury prevention medicine Human Performance Humans Learning Psychology Attention Child lcsh:Science Fatigue Analysis of Variance Behavior Multidisciplinary Human Movement business.industry lcsh:R Cognitive Psychology Human factors and ergonomics Biology and Life Sciences Motor Skills Finger tapping Developmental Psychology Cognitive Science Female lcsh:Q Sleep (system call) Analysis of variance business Sleep Physiological Processes Psychomotor Performance Research Article Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 11, p e111635 (2014) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | In adults, sleep is necessary for the offline improvement of certain skills, such as sequential finger tapping, but whether children show a similar effect is still debatable. Here, we tested whether sleep is associated with offline performance improvement in children. Nine- and 11-year-old children trained on an explicit sequential finger tapping task. On the night following training, their parents observed and recorded the duration of each child’s sleep. The following day, all children performed a surprise retest session on the previously trained sequence. In both 9- and 11-year-old children, skill performance was significantly improved during the first retest session relative to the end of training on the previous day, confirming the offline improvement in performance. There was a significant correlation between the degree of improvement and sleep duration the night after training, suggesting that in children, as in adults, sleep is associated with offline skill enhancement. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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