Volume 5 Issue 7, July 2002
Sleep is known to be important for learning, but how it exerts this effect remains mysterious. Mednick and colleagues now report that performance on a visual shape discrimination task deteriorated across multiple training sessions within a given day, but this deterioration could be prevented or reversed by a brief midday nap. This benefit was specific to the trained task and to the region of the visual field that was engaged by it. Photo courtesy of Photo Researchers. See pages 618 and 677.
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