Short Writing Assignment #1 The study examines whether or not sleep fosters basal odor memory in children and adults using an incidental odor recognition paradigm. The independent variables in this study are sleep (sleep or wake) and age (child or adult); the dependent variable is odor memory performance. The researchers believe that the memory consolidation during sleep is experience-dependent, and therefore, sleep does not support the consolidation of most odor memory in children due to lack of experience. They recruited 30 healthy boys (mean age of 10.6) and 30 healthy males (mean age of 25.4), randomly assigned them to either a wake group or a sleep group (15 participants per group). The study had two sessions and was masked as a study
