Nap-dependent learning in infants

Sleep has been shown to aid a variety of learning and memory processes in adults ( Stickgold, 2005 ). Recently, we showed that infants’ learning also benefits from subsequent sleep such that infants who nap are able to the general grammatical pattern of a briefly presented artificial language ( Gome...

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Published in:Developmental science 2009-11, Vol.12 (6), p.1007-1012
Main Authors: Hupbach, Almut, Gomez, Rebecca L., Bootzin, Richard R., Nadel, Lynn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial Languages
Babies
Child Development
Child Development - physiology
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive Processes
Comparative Analysis
Developmental psychology
Female
Grammar
Humans
Infant
Infants
Language
Language Tests
Learning
Learning - physiology
Male
Memory
Memory - physiology
Mental Recall - physiology
Recall (Psychology)
Retention (Psychology) - physiology
Sleep
Sleep - physiology
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