Auditory Declarative Memory Essay

Research has found that sleep does play an important role with cognitive effects on the brain in adolescence and adults. It seems to have obvious improvements within those ages but does not have much effect on elderly individuals because most do not have a full night of sleep without awakening and their slow-wave sleep is interrupted.. The age group that the research study was interested was around the early ages of adolescence. There have been various studies that measure the improvements of visual declarative memory in children but not for auditory declarative memory. The hypothesis of this research would be to see if the auditory declarative memory does improve after these children have a well rested night of sleep.
In the study of proving that sleep does help auditory declarative memory in early age adolescents, the method they chose to use for this test was to twenty males and twenty females all between the ages of 10 and 14. These children had no academic or health problems that could affect their sleep pattern.This study tested the children twice for 15 minutes each and put in groups according to their gender.Each student was assigned to a sleep or no sleep group and put at different tables randomly. The no sleep group averaged at the age of 12.9 …show more content…
For the letter-number initial test, there was a 0.52 difference between the sleep and non sleep group with a P of 0.13. The second letter-number test after the 12 hours of sleep had a difference of .13 with the non-sleep group having better scores this time and a P of .88. For the last test there was a significant difference of 1.26 and a P of .029. Looking at the P scores there was no possible way for these results between the two groups to happen by coincidence. Overall the sleep group had better scores because the consolidation and hippocampus have better effects towards memory when sleep is