Sleep is universal, tightly regulated, and its loss impairs cognition. But why does the brain need to disconnect from the environment for hours every day? The synaptic homeostasis …
While humans have an incredible capacity to acquire new skills and alter their behavior as a result of experience, enhancements in performance are typically narrowly restricted to the …
Abstract Changes in synaptic connections are considered essential for learning and memory formation,,,,,. However, it is unknown how neural circuits undergo continuous synaptic …
T Roenneberg, A Wirz-Justice… - Journal of biological …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Human behavior shows large interindividual variation in temporal organization. Extreme “larks” wake up when extreme “owls” fall asleep. These chronotypes are attributed to …
PERFORMANCE of complex motor tasks, such as rapid sequences of finger movements, can be improved in terms of speed and accuracy over several weeks by daily practice …
A Karni, G Meyer, C Rey-Hipolito… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Behavioral and neurophysiological studies suggest that skill learning can be mediated by discrete, experience-driven changes within specific neural representations subserving the …
Improvement in motor skill performance is known to continue for at least 24 hr following training, yet the relative contributions of time spent awake and asleep are unknown. Here we …
RL Goldstone - Annual review of psychology, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Perceptual learning involves relatively long-lasting changes to an organism's perceptual system that improve its ability to respond to its environment. Four mechanisms of …
PJ Olesen, H Westerberg, T Klingberg - Nature neuroscience, 2004 - nature.com
Working memory capacity has traditionally been thought to be constant. Recent studies, however, suggest that working memory can be improved by training. In this study, we have …