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Sleep

How Sleep Enhances Procedural Memory

Sleep has also been shown to enhance a variety of procedural memories. These are memories that do not require conscious thought to acquire or access, and are not easily verbalized. Through the use of an assortment of tasks, including texture discrimination, sequence learning, reaction time, and tracing tasks, it has become increasingly clear that task characteristics and individual differences impact sleep dependent processing of this class of memory.

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Adapted from: The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory, First Edition. Edited by Donna Rose Addis, Morgan Barense, and Audrey Duarte. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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