Université de Fribourg

No effect of vocabulary reactivation in older adults

Cordi, Maren Jasmin ; Schreiner, Thomas ; Rasch, Björn

In: Neuropsychologia, 2018, vol. 119, p. 261

Quality of memory and sleep declines with age. However, the mechanistic interactions underlying the memory function of sleep in older adults are still unknown. It is widely assumed that the beneficial effect of sleep on memory relies on reactivation during Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Targeting these reactivations by cue re-exposure reliably improves memory in younger participants. Here...

Université de Fribourg

The beneficial role of memory reactivation for language learning during sleep : a review

Schreiner, Thomas ; Rasch, Björn

In: Brain and Language, 2017, vol. 167, p. 94-105

Sleep is essential for diverse aspects of language learning. According to a prominent concept these beneficial effects of sleep rely on spontaneous reactivation processes. A series of recent studies demonstrated that inducing such reactivation processes by re-exposure to memory cues during sleep enhances foreign vocabulary learning. Building upon these findings, the present article reviews recent...

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Boosting Vocabulary Learning by Verbal Cueing During Sleep

Schreiner, Thomas

In: Cerebral Cortex, 2015, vol. 25, no. 11, p. 4169-4179