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Working Memory Is Partially Preserved during Sleep

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, December 2012
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Title
Working Memory Is Partially Preserved during Sleep
Published in
PLOS ONE, December 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0050997
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Authors

Jérôme Daltrozzo, Léa Claude, Barbara Tillmann, Hélène Bastuji, Fabien Perrin

Abstract

Although several cognitive processes, including speech processing, have been studied during sleep, working memory (WM) has never been explored up to now. Our study assessed the capacity of WM by testing speech perception when the level of background noise and the sentential semantic length (SSL) (amount of semantic information required to perceive the incongruence of a sentence) were modulated. Speech perception was explored with the N400 component of the event-related potentials recorded to sentence final words (50% semantically congruent with the sentence, 50% semantically incongruent). During sleep stage 2 and paradoxical sleep: (1) without noise, a larger N400 was observed for (short and long SSL) sentences ending with a semantically incongruent word compared to a congruent word (i.e. an N400 effect); (2) with moderate noise, the N400 effect (observed at wake with short and long SSL sentences) was attenuated for long SSL sentences. Our results suggest that WM for linguistic information is partially preserved during sleep with a smaller capacity compared to wake.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
Uruguay 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Japan 1 1%
Unknown 70 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 21%
Student > Master 12 16%
Student > Postgraduate 7 9%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 20 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 16 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 12%
Neuroscience 9 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 9%
Linguistics 3 4%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 22 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

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#1,933,503
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#18,923
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