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Motor memory: Consolidation–based enhancement effect revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Julien Doyon*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
Julie Carrier*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
Alain Simard*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
Abdallah Hadj Tahar*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
Amélie Morin*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
Habib Benali*
Affiliation:
Unité 494 INSERM, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75634 PARIS CEDEX 13, France
Leslie G. Ungerleider*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-1366

Abstract

Following Karni's seminal work, Walker and other researchers have recently provided gradually convincing evidence that sleep is critical for the consolidation-based enhancement (CBE) of motor sequence learning. Studies in our laboratory using a motor adaptation paradigm, however, show that CBE can also occur after the simple passage of time, suggesting that sleep effects on memory consolidation are task-related, and possibly dependent on anatomically dissociable circuits.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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