TY - JOUR PY - 2013// TI - The sleeping child outplays the adult's capacity to convert implicit into explicit knowledge JO - Nature neuroscience A1 - Wilhelm, Ines A1 - Rose, Michael A1 - Imhof, Kathrin I. A1 - Rasch, Bjöern A1 - Büechel, Christian A1 - Born, Jan SP - 391 EP - 393 VL - 16 IS - 4 N2 - When sleep followed implicit training on a motor sequence, children showed greater gains in explicit sequence knowledge after sleep than adults. This greater explicit knowledge in children was linked to their higher sleep slow-wave activity and to stronger hippocampal activation at explicit knowledge retrieval. Our data indicate the superiority of children in extracting invariant features from complex environments, possibly as a result of enhanced reprocessing of hippocampal memory representations during slow-wave sleep.
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LA - en SN - 1097-6256 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.3343 ID - ref1 ER -