Kinesiology 3480A/B Lecture Notes - Memory Consolidation, Explicit Memory, Neocortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3480A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

Research on the effects of sleeping on memory consolidation. Bass of research started 30 years ago: State-dependent memory = memory phenomena where you are better able to recall info when you are in the environment in which you learned that info. Speaks to the state-dependent nature of memory - for some reason there is better linkage between consolidation and retrieval mechanisms when those two mechanisms are associated with the same environment. General consensus: thought that sleep prevents (retro and pro)interference from impairing ability to learn info. Some researchers have shown that sleeping right after studying results in the best consolidation and retrieval of memories. Sleep right after studying allow for dialogue to occur between the hippocampus and neocortical (high-level frontal) regions. Have to be in slow-wave sleep (sws) for this dialogue to occur: period of very deep sleep, most of sleep cycle first and latter halves.