title: Motor memory in childhood: early expression of consolidation phase gains.
abstract: Are children faster than adults in consolidating procedural knowledge? In adults, the expression of the full benefits of motor practice requires a few hours of consolidation and sleep. Here we show that, although the processes generating the delayed gains continued beyond the first few hours post-training, children expressed significant gains as early as 1 h post-training, in the awake state.
authors.affiliation: The Lab of Human Brain & Learning the Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. Electronic address: lilach_ad@walla.co.il.
authors.forename: Lilach
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ashtamker
authors.forename: Avi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karni
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012153:Retention, Psychology / Q000502:physiology; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Children; Consolidation; Motor memory; Motor sequence learning