Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Recent research on how sleep influences cognitive processes has pointed to the potential role of sleep in the consolidation and generalisation of information across a range of tasks, including some language learning tasks (i.e., Gómez, Bootzin, & Nadel, 2006; Wagner, Gais, Haider, Verleger, & Born, 2004; Walker, 2005). The current study investigated the role of sleep in grammatical category generalisation by testing participants for categorical knowledge 12 hours after initial training. Participants were tested on their categorisation of the training words and also
Authors: Michelle St Clair, Padraic Monaghan
Institutions: University of Manchester, Lancaster University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2767563261