Consolidation of memory; the process of maintaining information in your LTM is strongly influenced by the role of sleep (Potkin and Bunney, 2012). “Declarative memory or explicit memory, emphasizes the representation and organization of factual knowledge (Reed, 2013).” Declarative memory plays a key role in an adolescent’s school performance and the process of consecutive social functioning. This study explores the effect of normal sleep on auditory declarative memory in adolescents ages 10-14. A hypotheses of this study being; if performance on the control working memory task involves encoding and memoranda manipulation, then control of working memory will not be affected by time, day or relationship to sleep, rather declarative memory is
…show more content…
“In this study, subjects were trained on a paired- associate declarative memory task and a control working memory task at 9:00 a.m., and tested at night (12 hours later) without sleep (Potkin and Bunney, 2012).” “The same number of subjects were trained at 9:00 p.m. and tested at 900 a.m. following sleep (Potkin and Bunney, 2012).” Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep is defined as unplanned action of the eyes, vivid dreams, and minimal muscle tone all over the body (Mastin, 2013). Lack of REM sleep strongly affects your ability to recall visual location and produces a decline in slow- wave sleep, deep sleep, which strongly affects your declarative memory consolidation ability. Slow- wave sleep is high in adolescents before puberty, but decreases by 60% between the ages of 10 and 20 (Potkin and Bunney, 2012). This is relative because a key reason in psychiatric and developmental disorders in adolescents is most adolescents do not get the proper amount of sleep, often sleep is disrupted (Potkin and Bunney, …show more content…
Removal of the outliers was present, leaving the study with nineteen sleep subjects and eighteen no sleep subjects. Lavene’s test was used to show there was equality between all of the variances and comparisons (Potkin and Bunney, 21012).The group assigned to sleep task had a number correct of 6.58 during initial testing for the Letter- number control task and the number correct for the no-sleep group was 6.06 (t = (1.54), df (1.35), p = 0.13) (Potking and Bunney, 2012). During the second round of administration, it was found that the letter- number correct was 6.26 and 6.33 (t = (-.16), df (1,35), p = .088). Neither of the groups showed an important statistical difference for the letter- number task for the first and second administration (paired t test, p = 0.32 for sleep group and .45 for no- sleep group. “ An increase of 20.6 % in long- term memory was found as measured by the number correct in paired- associate test following sleep, compared to the group which was tested at the same time interval, but without sleep (p<0.009, with a 32.7 % increase ( Potkin and Bunney,
“In this study, subjects were trained on a paired- associate declarative memory task and a control working memory task at 9:00 a.m., and tested at night (12 hours later) without sleep (Potkin and Bunney, 2012).” “The same number of subjects were trained at 9:00 p.m. and tested at 900 a.m. following sleep (Potkin and Bunney, 2012).” Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep is defined as unplanned action of the eyes, vivid dreams, and minimal muscle tone all over the body (Mastin, 2013). Lack of REM sleep strongly affects your ability to recall visual location and produces a decline in slow- wave sleep, deep sleep, which strongly affects your declarative memory consolidation ability. Slow- wave sleep is high in adolescents before puberty, but decreases by 60% between the ages of 10 and 20 (Potkin and Bunney, 2012). This is relative because a key reason in psychiatric and developmental disorders in adolescents is most adolescents do not get the proper amount of sleep, often sleep is disrupted (Potkin and Bunney, …show more content…
Removal of the outliers was present, leaving the study with nineteen sleep subjects and eighteen no sleep subjects. Lavene’s test was used to show there was equality between all of the variances and comparisons (Potkin and Bunney, 21012).The group assigned to sleep task had a number correct of 6.58 during initial testing for the Letter- number control task and the number correct for the no-sleep group was 6.06 (t = (1.54), df (1.35), p = 0.13) (Potking and Bunney, 2012). During the second round of administration, it was found that the letter- number correct was 6.26 and 6.33 (t = (-.16), df (1,35), p = .088). Neither of the groups showed an important statistical difference for the letter- number task for the first and second administration (paired t test, p = 0.32 for sleep group and .45 for no- sleep group. “ An increase of 20.6 % in long- term memory was found as measured by the number correct in paired- associate test following sleep, compared to the group which was tested at the same time interval, but without sleep (p<0.009, with a 32.7 % increase ( Potkin and Bunney,