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Berres S, Erdfelder E, Kuhlmann BG. Does sleep benefit source memory? Investigating 12-h retention intervals with a multinomial modeling approach. Mem Cognit 2025; 53:467-493. [PMID: 38831160 PMCID: PMC11868154 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-024-01579-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024]
Abstract
For retention intervals of up to 12 h, the active systems consolidation hypothesis predicts that sleep compared to wakefulness strengthens the context binding of memories previously established during encoding. Sleep should thus improve source memory. By comparing retention intervals filled with natural night sleep versus daytime wakefulness, we tested this prediction in two online source-monitoring experiments using intentionally learned pictures as items and incidentally learned screen positions and frame colors as source dimensions. In Experiment 1, we examined source memory by varying the spatial position of pictures on the computer screen. Multinomial modeling analyses revealed a significant sleep benefit in source memory. In Experiment 2, we manipulated both the spatial position and the frame color of pictures orthogonally to investigate source memory for two different source dimensions at the same time, also allowing exploration of bound memory for both source dimensions. The sleep benefit on spatial source memory replicated. In contrast, no source memory sleep benefit was observed for either frame color or bound memory of both source dimensions, probably as a consequence of a floor effect in incidental encoding of color associations. In sum, the results of both experiments show that sleep within a 12-h retention interval improves source memory for spatial positions, supporting the prediction of the active systems consolidation hypothesis. However, additional research is required to clarify the impact of sleep on source memory for other context features and bound memories of multiple source dimensions.
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- Sabrina Berres
- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, L13, 15-17, Room 425, 68161, Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, L13, 15-17, Room 425, 68161, Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, L13, 15-17, Room 425, 68161, Mannheim, Germany.
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Kurinec CA, Whitney P, Hinson JM, Hansen DA, Van Dongen HPA. Sleep Deprivation Impairs Binding of Information with Its Context. Sleep 2021; 44:6262625. [PMID: 33940625 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Binding information to its context in long-term memory is critical for many tasks, including memory tasks and decision making. Failure to associate information to its context could be an important aspect of sleep deprivation effects on cognition, but little is known about binding problems from being sleep-deprived at the time of encoding. We studied how sleep deprivation affects binding using a well-established paradigm testing the ability to remember auditorily presented words (items) and their speakers (source context). In a laboratory study, 68 healthy young adults were randomly assigned to total sleep deprivation or a well-rested control condition. Participants completed an affective item and source memory task twice: once after 7h awake during baseline and again 24h later, after nearly 31h awake in the total sleep deprivation condition or 7h awake in the control condition. Participants listened to negative, positive, and neutral words presented by a male or female speaker and were immediately tested for recognition of the words and their respective speakers. Recognition of items declined during sleep deprivation, but even when items were recognized accurately, recognition of their associated sources also declined. Negative items were less bound with their sources than positive or neutral items,but sleep deprivation did not significantly affect this pattern.Our findings indicate that learning while sleep-deprived disrupts the binding of information to its context independent of item valence. Such binding failures may contribute to sleep deprivation effects on tasks requiring the ability to bind new information together in memory.
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- Courtney A Kurinec
- Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States.,Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States.,Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States.,Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, United States
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- Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, United States.,Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, United States
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- Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, United States.,Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, United States
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Yonelinas AP, Ranganath C, Ekstrom AD, Wiltgen BJ. A contextual binding theory of episodic memory: systems consolidation reconsidered. Nat Rev Neurosci 2019; 20:364-375. [PMID: 30872808 PMCID: PMC7233541 DOI: 10.1038/s41583-019-0150-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Episodic memory reflects the ability to recollect the temporal and spatial context of past experiences. Episodic memories depend on the hippocampus but have been proposed to undergo rapid forgetting unless consolidated during offline periods such as sleep to neocortical areas for long-term storage. Here, we propose an alternative to this standard systems consolidation theory (SSCT) - a contextual binding account - in which the hippocampus binds item-related and context-related information. We compare these accounts in light of behavioural, lesion, neuroimaging and sleep studies of episodic memory and contend that forgetting is largely due to contextual interference, episodic memory remains dependent on the hippocampus across time, contextual drift produces post-encoding activity and sleep benefits memory by reducing contextual interference.
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- Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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No effect of vocabulary reactivation in older adults. Neuropsychologia 2018; 119:253-261. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.08.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Talk A, Antón-Méndez I, Pennefather B. Graded expression of source memory revealed by analysis of gaze direction. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0188727. [PMID: 29176901 PMCID: PMC5703523 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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During source memory studies, knowledge of some detail about the context of a previously experienced item or event is tested. Here, participants attended to different objects presented at different quadrants on a screen. In a later test phase, a single object was presented in all four quadrants, and participants verbally reported whether the object was new or previously seen (item recognition), and if it was previously seen, they indicated the original screen location (source memory). We combined this test with eye-tracking to determine whether attention to an object during encoding would correlate with later recognition of the object and memory of its source location, and whether eye movements at test can reveal attention to the correct source location in the absence of correct explicit verbal responses. The amount of time spent looking at an object during encoding was not related to later object recognition or source recollection. However, we found that eye movements at test reveal retention of source information about an object in the absence of accurate retrieval of source information as assessed by verbal response. When participants correctly recognized an object but incorrectly indicated the source information, significantly more time was spent looking at the correct source location than to incorrect, non-selected locations. Moreover, when participants correctly recognized an object but said they could not remember the source information, significantly more time was spent looking at the correct source location. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that eye movements are sensitive to attention or other graded mental processes which can underlie the retrieval of source memories that can then be expressed verbally in a thresholded manner.
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- Andrew Talk
- Discipline of Psychology, School of Behavioural, Cognitive, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
- * E-mail: (AT); (IAM)
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- Discipline of Linguistics, School of Behavioural, Cognitive, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
- * E-mail: (AT); (IAM)
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- Discipline of Psychology, School of Behavioural, Cognitive, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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Preconditioning of Spatial and Auditory Cues: Roles of the Hippocampus, Frontal Cortex, and Cue-Directed Attention. Brain Sci 2016; 6:brainsci6040063. [PMID: 27999366 PMCID: PMC5187577 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci6040063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2016] [Revised: 12/07/2016] [Accepted: 12/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Loss of function of the hippocampus or frontal cortex is associated with reduced performance on memory tasks, in which subjects are incidentally exposed to cues at specific places in the environment and are subsequently asked to recollect the location at which the cue was experienced. Here, we examined the roles of the rodent hippocampus and frontal cortex in cue-directed attention during encoding of memory for the location of a single incidentally experienced cue. During a spatial sensory preconditioning task, rats explored an elevated platform while an auditory cue was incidentally presented at one corner. The opposite corner acted as an unpaired control location. The rats demonstrated recollection of location by avoiding the paired corner after the auditory cue was in turn paired with shock. Damage to either the dorsal hippocampus or the frontal cortex impaired this memory ability. However, we also found that hippocampal lesions enhanced attention directed towards the cue during the encoding phase, while frontal cortical lesions reduced cue-directed attention. These results suggest that the deficit in spatial sensory preconditioning caused by frontal cortical damage may be mediated by inattention to the location of cues during the latent encoding phase, while deficits following hippocampal damage must be related to other mechanisms such as generation of neural plasticity.
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Scullin MK, Bliwise DL. Sleep, cognition, and normal aging: integrating a half century of multidisciplinary research. PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2015; 10:97-137. [PMID: 25620997 PMCID: PMC4302758 DOI: 10.1177/1745691614556680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 327] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep, spindle density, and sleep continuity/fragmentation. A provocative question for the field of cognitive aging is whether such changes in sleep physiology affect cognition (e.g., memory consolidation). We review nearly a half century of research across seven diverse correlational and experimental domains that historically have had little crosstalk. Broadly speaking, sleep and cognitive functions are often related in advancing age, though the prevalence of null effects in healthy older adults (including correlations in the unexpected, negative direction) indicates that age may be an effect modifier of these associations. We interpret the literature as suggesting that maintaining good sleep quality, at least in young adulthood and middle age, promotes better cognitive functioning and serves to protect against age-related cognitive declines.
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- Michael K Scullin
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine
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