Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Frontal Lobe, Retrograde Amnesia, Clive Wearing
16 Dec 2016
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Lab 4 is on owl for final exam. Cognitive memories seem to be better remembered in sws, when you are zonked out. If woken up in sws, you would not remember being woken up. Brain really decreases activity during this part of the sleep cycle. Rem sleep, your body is moving about, your eyes are seceding back and forth and you are dreaming. Rem seems to be important for consolidating motor/implicit memories. New motor skill, should have rem sleep right after to remember a motor/explicit memory. 6-8 hours allows for sws, allowing for long term memory. People who are woken up when experiencing sws will not remember any little facts if we do a practical skill, of tapi(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s a(cid:374)kle, a(cid:374)d the(cid:374) rem sleep (cid:271)efore a test, (cid:272)at nap, we will perform well. When taking a cat nap, our brain is active, so we are practicing a little bit, helping us perform.
