5. Sleep and cognitive consolidation

Question 1

What did Ebbinghaus (1885) find in relation to sleep and consolidation?

Answer 1

Sleep after encoding of nonsense syllables supports memory consolidation

Question 2

Diekelmann and Born (2010) found what in relation to sleep and consolidation?

Answer 2

Active neuronal replay of memory representations during slow wave sleep

Question 3

Van Der werf et al (2009) found what in relation to sleep and consolidation?

Answer 3

Sleep restores learning capabilities

Question 4

Define spreading activation

Answer 4

Sleep enables spread across sparse networks

Question 5

How does sleep link to forgetting and analogical transfer?

Answer 5

Harder word sets generate more erroneous links, which must be forgotten. Sleep allows this to happen