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What is consolidated during sleep-dependent motor skill learning?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Luca A. Finelli  and
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Luca A. Finelli*
Affiliation:
Howard Hughes Medical Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037http://www.cnl.salk.edu
Terrence J. Sejnowski*
Affiliation:
Howard Hughes Medical Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037http://www.cnl.salk.edu Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093; Howard Hughes Medical Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037
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Abstract

Learning procedural skills involves improvement in speed and accuracy. Walker proposes two stages of memory consolidation: enhancement, which requires sleep, and stabilization, which does not require sleep. Speed improvement for a motor learning task but not accuracy occurs after sleep-dependent enhancement. We discuss this finding in the context of computational models and underlying sleep mechanisms.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 70 - 71
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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