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The incredible, shrinking sleep-learning connection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Jerome M. Siegel
Jerome M. Siegel*
Affiliation:
Neurobiology Research 151A3, V.A. Greater Los Angeles Health System, Sepulveda, CA 91343; Department of Psychiatry, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, 16111 Plummer Street, North Hills, CA 91343http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch
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Abstract

Initial claims that REM sleep is important in the consolidation of all memories have been revised and reduced to the claim that sleep has a role only in the consolidation of procedural learning. Now, Walker hypothesizes that sleep has no role in the “stabilization phase of consolidation” but only in the “enhanced learning” phase of procedural learning. Evidence for this vague, truncated hypothesis remains as inconsistent as that for prior claims.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 82 - 83
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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