0213 Brief Periods of Nrem Sleep Do Not Promote Early Offline Gains but Subsequent On-Task Performance in Motor Skill Learning (original) (raw)

Benefits of Sleep in Motor Learning – Prospects and Limitations

Journal of Human Kinetics, 2008

Benefits of Sleep in Motor Learning – Prospects and Limitations During the recent years it has been shown repeatedly that, after initial learning, elapse of time preserves, but sleep enhances performance in procedural motor skills. To date, however, the majority of experimental studies in this area employed some sort of a sequential finger tapping skill as a criterion task. Thus it is unclear yet, if any (and which) other types of motor skills do indeed benefit from sleep. In order to answer this question, and to provide theoretical statements about the memory system regarding benefits of sleep in motor learning, we carried out a series of studies following a "multi-task research strategy". Although we successfully replicated sleep-related improvements in the production of newly acquired sequential finger skills (FT-Task) under different learning conditions (i.e., guided or unguided), we did not find any such effect of sleep in discrete motor tasks requiring precise produc...

Adult Gross Motor Learning and Sleep: Is There a Mutual Benefit?

Neural Plasticity, 2018

Posttraining consolidation, also known as offline learning, refers to neuroplastic processes and systemic reorganization by which newly acquired skills are converted from an initially transient state into a more permanent state. An extensive amount of research on cognitive and fine motor tasks has shown that sleep is able to enhance these processes, resulting in more stable declarative and procedural memory traces. On the other hand, limited evidence exists concerning the relationship between sleep and learning of gross motor skills. We are particularly interested in this relationship with the learning of gross motor skills in adulthood, such as in the case of sports, performing arts, devised experimental tasks, and rehabilitation practice. Thus, the present review focuses on sleep and gross motor learning (GML) in adults. The literature on the impact of sleep on GML, the consequences of sleep deprivation, and the influence of GML on sleep architecture were evaluated for this review...

Gross motor adaptation benefits from sleep after training

Journal of Sleep Research, 2019

Sleep has been shown to facilitate the consolidation of newly acquired motor memories. However, the role of sleep in gross motor learning, especially in motor adaptation, is less clear. Thus, we investigated the effects of nocturnal sleep on the performance of a gross motor adaptation task, i.e. riding an inverse steering bicycle. Twenty‐six male participants (M = 24.19, SD = 3.70 years) were randomly assigned to a PM‐AM‐PM (n = 13) or an AM‐PM‐AM (n = 13) group, i.e. they trained in the evening/morning and were re‐tested the next morning/evening and the following evening/morning (PM‐AM‐PM/AM‐PM‐AM group) so that every participant spent one sleep as well as one wake interval between the three test sessions. Inverse cycling performance was assessed by speed (riding time) and accuracy (standard deviation of steering angle) measures. Behavioural results showed that in the PM‐AM‐PM group a night of sleep right after training stabilized performance (accuracy and speed) and was further im...