School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Memory. 2012;20(8):907-14. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2012.711837. Epub 2012 Aug 20.
Sleep has a beneficial effect on consolidation of newly learned fine motor skills. The aim of the current study was to determine whether sleep has a similar beneficial effect on consolidation of gross motor skills. A total of 70 participants were randomly assigned to either a sleep-wake group or a wake-sleep group and were trained on an arm coordinated reaching task as a gross motor skill. Initial training occurred in the evening for the sleep-wake group and in the morning for the Wake-Sleep group. All participants attended two test sessions 12 and 24 hours following the initial training. Gross motor skill performance improved in both groups following a night of sleep but not after a day of wakefulness. These findings may have implications for learning of new gross motor skills in a range of activities from dance to motor rehabilitation.
睡眠对新习得的精细运动技能的巩固有有益影响。本研究的目的是确定睡眠是否对粗大运动技能的巩固有类似的有益影响。共有 70 名参与者被随机分配到睡眠-清醒组或清醒-睡眠组，并接受手臂协调伸展任务的训练作为粗大运动技能。初始训练在晚上进行，对于睡眠-清醒组，在早上进行，对于清醒-睡眠组。所有参与者在初始训练后 12 小时和 24 小时参加两次测试。两组在一夜睡眠后，粗大运动技能表现均有所提高，但在一天清醒后则没有。这些发现可能对从舞蹈到运动康复等一系列活动中学习新的粗大运动技能具有重要意义。
