Spencer Rebecca M C
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 419 Tobin Hall, 135 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
ISRN Physiol. 2013 Jan 1;2013:619319. doi: 10.1155/2013/619319.
A wealth of recent studies support a function of sleep on memory and cognitive processing. At a physiological level, sleep supports memory in a number of ways including neural replay and enhanced plasticity in the context of reduced ongoing input. This paper presents behavioral evidence for sleep's role in selective remembering and forgetting of declarative memories, in generalization of these memories, and in motor skill consolidation. Recent physiological data reviewed suggests how these behavioral changes might be supported by sleep. Importantly, in reviewing these findings, an integrated view of how distinct sleep stages uniquely contribute to memory processing emerges. This model will be useful in developing future behavioral and physiological studies to test predictions that emerge.
近期大量研究支持睡眠在记忆和认知加工方面的作用。在生理层面，睡眠通过多种方式支持记忆，包括神经重演以及在持续输入减少的情况下增强可塑性。本文提供了行为学证据，证明睡眠在陈述性记忆的选择性记忆和遗忘、这些记忆的泛化以及运动技能巩固方面发挥作用。所回顾的近期生理学数据表明了睡眠可能如何支持这些行为变化。重要的是，在审视这些发现时，一个关于不同睡眠阶段如何独特地促进记忆加工的综合观点浮现出来。该模型将有助于开展未来的行为学和生理学研究，以检验由此产生的预测。
