title: The sleeping child outplays the adult's capacity to convert implicit into explicit knowledge.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. ines.wilhelm@kispi.uzh.ch
authors: Ines
authors: I
authors: Wilhelm
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Rose
authors: Kathrin I
authors: KI
authors: Imhof
authors: Björn
authors: B
authors: Rasch
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Büchel
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: Born
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012153:Retention, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult