Sleep Declarative Memory

In todays society sleep has been the topic of discussion. Not only is sleep important but it surrounds our everyday lives. Since, birth our schedule has been around sleep. For example, mom’s have a specific schedule for their child about when they should sleep and when they should be awake. Sleep is not only important in young children but also important as they begin to develop into adulthood. As the child begins to development sleep becomes very important in learning because not only is our brain making a lot of connections but its developing new ones as we experience different things. More so, no studies till this day have explore the impact of sleep on the brain processes, specifically declarative memory in children. For this reason, it …show more content…
More so they explore the mechanism in the development of conceptual, cognitive and declarative knowledge in children. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG) they were able to observe these changes in the brain. Furthermore, the study consisted of 21 healthy male children. The age range when from 8 years of age to 12.5 years of age. The 21 participants were divided into two random groups: the first group consisted of sleep and had 11 children. The condition group consisted of wake (rest) and had 10 children. The age range in each group were consistent in both groups. They study began with 100 outline drawings in which 50 were to be learned unknown objects and 50 to remain unknown-unlearn objects. Next, the subject took a picture definition learning task. The task consists of 3 sessions. The first session was consider pre-learning and a MEG scan was taken. Session 2 consist of retrieved and session 3 consist of delayed. More so, in session 2 and 3 children were ask to sleep for 2 hours. Children in the wake group were asked to do familiar activities. In addition, during sessions 2 and 3 children were trained to recognize the objects function. As a result, children were able to recognize the function of 75-98% of the