Sleep-stage durations, sleep fragmentation, and pre- and post-cue EEG band power were not significantly correlated with forgetting of cued items or the TMR-SD effect¶

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q2 i? Neither forgetting ratio of cued items nor the TMR-SD effect correlated significantly with nap duration, wake, N2, N3, SFI, or alpha and beta band power around cues. → Nathan W. Whitmore 2024

Evidence¶

Nathan W. Whitmore 2024¶

Nathan W. Whitmore, Erika M. Yamazaki & Ken A. Paller. (2024). Targeted memory reactivation with sleep disruption does not weaken week-old memories. npj Science of Learning 9, 64. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00276-0

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Exploratory Spearman rank correlations with Benjamini-Hochberg corrections across sleep measures; cued-item forgetting ratio also showed no significant correlations with the sleep measures or with alpha and beta mean band power before and after cues.

"The TMR-SD effect was also not signi ficantly correlated with any sleep measures [-0.05 ≤ ρ’s ≤ 0.21, cor- rectedp’s = 0.85]."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Sleep — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

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