Brief periods of NREM sleep do not promote early offline gains but subsequent on-task performance in motor skill learning

Maier, Jonathan; Piosczyk, Hannah; Holz, Johannes; Landmann, Nina; Deschler, Christoph; Frase, Lukas; Kuhn, Marion; Klöppel, Stefan; Spiegelhalder, Kai; Sterr, Annette; Riemann, Dieter; Feige, Bernd; Voderholzer, Ulrich; Nissen, Christoph (2017). Brief periods of NREM sleep do not promote early offline gains but subsequent on-task performance in motor skill learning. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 145, pp. 18-27. Elsevier 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.08.006

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Sleep modulates motor learning, but its detailed impact on performance curves remains to be fully characterized. This study aimed to further determine the impact of brief daytime periods of NREM sleep on 'offline' (task discontinuation after initial training) and 'on-task' (performance within the test session) changes in motor skill performance (finger tapping task). In a mixed design (combined parallel group and repeated measures) sleep laboratory study (n=17 'active' wake vs. sleep, n=19 'passive' wake vs. sleep), performance curves were assessed prior to and after a 90min period containing either sleep, active or passive wakefulness. We observed a highly significant, but state- (that is, sleep/wake)-independent early offline gain and improved on-task performance after sleep in comparison to wakefulness. Exploratory curve fitting suggested that the observed sleep effect most likely emerged from an interaction of training-induced improvement and detrimental 'time-on-task' processes, such as fatigue. Our results indicate that brief periods of NREM sleep do not promote early offline gains but subsequent on-task performance in motor skill learning.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > University Psychiatric Services > University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy > Translational Research Center
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology
04 Faculty of Medicine > University Psychiatric Services > University Hospital of Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

UniBE Contributor:

Maier, Jonathan Gabriel, Klöppel, Stefan, Nissen, Christoph

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1074-7427

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Katharina Klink

Date Deposited:

21 Sep 2017 15:29

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:29

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.nlm.2017.08.006

PubMed ID:

28830703

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Finger tapping Human Memory consolidation Offline Time-on-task

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.105487

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/105487

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