Timely Sleep Facilitates Declarative Memory Consolidation in Infants

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2015 Jan 14

PMID 25583469

Citations 38

Authors

Sabine Seehagen

Carolin Konrad

Jane S Herbert

Silvia Schneider

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Human infants devote the majority of their time to sleeping. However, very little is known about the role of sleep in early memory processing. Here we test 6- and 12-mo-old infants' declarative memory for novel actions after a 4-h [Experiment (Exp.) 1] and 24-h delay (Exp. 2). Infants in a nap condition took an extended nap (≥30 min) within 4 h after learning, whereas infants in a no-nap condition did not. A comparison with age-matched control groups revealed that after both delays, only infants who had napped after learning remembered the target actions at the test. Additionally, after the 24-h delay, memory performance of infants in the nap condition was significantly higher than that of infants in the no-nap condition. This is the first experimental evidence to our knowledge for an enhancing role of sleep in the consolidation of declarative memories in the first year of life.

Citing Articles

Associative learning via eyeblink conditioning differs by age from infancy to adulthood.

Konrad C, Neuhoff L, Adolph D, Goerigk S, Herbert J, Jagusch-Poirier J Commun Psychol. 2024; 2(1):118.

PMID: 39681622 PMC: 11649691. DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00176-4.

Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in young and aged brains.

Kumar D, Yanagisawa M, Funato H Aging Brain. 2024; 6:100124.

PMID: 39309405 PMC: 11416671. DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2024.100124.

Energetic demands regulate sleep-wake rhythm circuit development.

Poe A, Zhu L, Tang S, Valencia E, Kayser M Elife. 2024; 13.

PMID: 39037919 PMC: 11262794. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.97256.

More frequent naps are associated with lower cognitive development in a cohort of 8-38-month-old children, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Gliga T, Hendry A, Kong S, Ewing B, Davies C, McGillion M JCPP Adv. 2023; 3(4):e12190.

PMID: 38054058 PMC: 10694540. DOI: 10.1002/jcv2.12190.

Energetic Demands Regulate Sleep-Wake Rhythm Circuit Development.

Poe A, Zhu L, Tang S, Valencia E, Kayser M bioRxiv. 2023; .

PMID: 37786713 PMC: 10541615. DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.19.558472.

References

Backhaus J, Hoeckesfeld R, Born J, Hohagen F, Junghanns K . Immediate as well as delayed post learning sleep but not wakefulness enhances declarative memory consolidation in children. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2007; 89(1):76-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.08.010. View

Hayne H, Barr R, Herbert J . The effect of prior practice on memory reactivation and generalization. Child Dev. 2003; 74(6):1615-27. DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00627.x. View

Wagner U, Gais S, Haider H, Verleger R, Born J . Sleep inspires insight. Nature. 2004; 427(6972):352-5. DOI: 10.1038/nature02223. View

Benson K, Feinberg I . The beneficaial effect of sleep in an extended Jenkins and Dallenbach paradigm. Psychophysiology. 1977; 14(4):375-84. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1977.tb02967.x. View

Jacklin C, Snow M, Gahart M, MACCOBY E . Sleep pattern development from 6 through 33 months. J Pediatr Psychol. 1980; 5(3):295-303. DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/5.3.295. View

Schoen L, Badia P . Facilitated recall following REM and NREM naps. Psychophysiology. 1984; 21(3):299-306. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1984.tb02937.x. View

Squire L . Memory and the hippocampus: a synthesis from findings with rats, monkeys, and humans. Psychol Rev. 1992; 99(2):195-231. DOI: 10.1037/0033-295x.99.2.195. View

McDonough L, Mandler J, McKEE R, Squire L . The deferred imitation task as a nonverbal measure of declarative memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995; 92(16):7580-4. PMC: 41383. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.16.7580. View

Gais S, Born J . Declarative memory consolidation: mechanisms acting during human sleep. Learn Mem. 2004; 11(6):679-85. PMC: 534696. DOI: 10.1101/lm.80504. View

10.

Adlam A, Vargha-Khadem F, Mishkin M, de Haan M . Deferred imitation of action sequences in developmental amnesia. J Cogn Neurosci. 2005; 17(2):240-8. DOI: 10.1162/0898929053124901. View

11.

Scher A . Infant sleep at 10 months of age as a window to cognitive development. Early Hum Dev. 2005; 81(3):289-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2004.07.005. View

12.

Learmonth A, Lamberth R, Rovee-Collier C . The social context of imitation in infancy. J Exp Child Psychol. 2005; 91(4):297-314. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2005.02.001. View

13.

Walker M, Stickgold R . Sleep, memory, and plasticity. Annu Rev Psychol. 2005; 57:139-66. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070307. View

14.

Gais S, Lucas B, Born J . Sleep after learning aids memory recall. Learn Mem. 2006; 13(3):259-62. PMC: 10807868. DOI: 10.1101/lm.132106. View

15.

Gomez R, Bootzin R, Nadel L . Naps promote abstraction in language-learning infants. Psychol Sci. 2006; 17(8):670-4. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01764.x. View

16.

Fischer S, Wilhelm I, Born J . Developmental differences in sleep's role for implicit off-line learning: comparing children with adults. J Cogn Neurosci. 2007; 19(2):214-27. DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.2.214. View

17.

Rasch B, Buchel C, Gais S, Born J . Odor cues during slow-wave sleep prompt declarative memory consolidation. Science. 2007; 315(5817):1426-9. DOI: 10.1126/science.1138581. View

18.

Ellenbogen J, Hu P, Payne J, Titone D, Walker M . Human relational memory requires time and sleep. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007; 104(18):7723-8. PMC: 1863467. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0700094104. View

19.

Wilhelm I, Diekelmann S, Born J . Sleep in children improves memory performance on declarative but not procedural tasks. Learn Mem. 2008; 15(5):373-7. DOI: 10.1101/lm.803708. View

20.

Prehn-Kristensen A, Goder R, Chirobeja S, Bressmann I, Ferstl R, Baving L . Sleep in children enhances preferentially emotional declarative but not procedural memories. J Exp Child Psychol. 2009; 104(1):132-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.01.005. View