Pan & Rickard (2015)

Sleep and motor learning: Is there room for consolidation?

Psychological Bulletin, 141(4), 812-834

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Pan, S. C., & Rickard, T. C. (2015). Sleep and motor learning: Is there room for consolidation?. Psychological Bulletin, 141(4), 812-834. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000009

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2 mechanisms cite this source. Each finding below is quoted as it appears on that mechanism's own page.

Procedural Memory Memory Systems

Measured in humans

Meta-analyses of motor sequence learning (34 articles, 88 groups, 1,296 participants) replicated a large performance gain after sleep and a smaller gain after wakefulness, but once methodological confounds were accounted for there was no evidence that sleep enhances the skill

Consolidation Memory Processes

Measured in humans

For motor sequence learning (34 articles, 1,296 participants), there was no evidence that sleep enhances learning once confounds such as time of testing and inhibition building up during training were controlled; sleep may stabilize skill memory, but that effect was inconsistent across designs