Konrad Carolin, Seehagen Sabine
Faculty of Psychology, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Faculty of Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Adv Child Dev Behav. 2021;60:31-56. doi: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2020.08.003. Epub 2020 Sep 23.
During the first year of life, infants devote the majority of their time to sleep. Research in adults has shown that sleep supports a variety of memory processes. Surprisingly, sleep's function for infant memory has only started to receive attention in research. In this chapter, we will describe age-related changes in sleep and in memory processing over the first years of life, as well as methods to capture both sleep and memory. Then, we will review current findings on the effects of sleep on memory processing in infants. Lastly, we will also point out gaps in current knowledge and describe potential avenues for future research. Overall, the results of recent experimental studies provide evidence that timely, extended napping is involved in how memories are encoded and stored in the long-term and contribute to the formation of knowledge networks in infants.
在生命的第一年，婴儿大部分时间都用于睡眠。针对成年人的研究表明，睡眠有助于多种记忆过程。令人惊讶的是，睡眠对婴儿记忆的作用在研究中才刚刚开始受到关注。在本章中，我们将描述生命最初几年中睡眠和记忆处理方面与年龄相关的变化，以及捕捉睡眠和记忆的方法。然后，我们将回顾关于睡眠对婴儿记忆处理影响的当前研究结果。最后，我们还将指出当前知识的空白，并描述未来研究的潜在途径。总体而言，最近的实验研究结果提供了证据，表明适时、延长的午睡与记忆如何被编码并长期存储有关，并且有助于婴儿知识网络的形成。
