Lateralised sleep spindles relate to false memory generation

Shaw, John J. and Monaghan, Padraic (2017) Lateralised sleep spindles relate to false memory generation. Neuropsychologia, 107. pp. 60-67. ISSN 0028-3932

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Abstract

Sleep is known to enhance false memories: After presenting participants with lists of semantically related words, sleeping before recalling these words results in a greater acceptance of unseen “lure” words related in theme to previously seen words. Furthermore, the right hemisphere (RH) seems to be more prone to false memories than the left hemisphere (LH). In the current study, we investigated the sleep architecture associated with these false memory and lateralisation effects in a nap study. Participants viewed lists of related words, then stayed awake or slept for approximately 90 minutes, and were then tested for recognition of previously seen-old, unseen-new, or unseen-lure words presented either to the LH or RH. Sleep increased acceptance of unseen-lure words as previously seen compared to the wake group, particularly for RH presentations of word lists. RH lateralised stage 2 sleep spindle density relative to the LH correlated with this increase in false memories, suggesting that RH sleep spindles enhanced false memories in the RH.

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Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Neuropsychologia
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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Neuropsychologia. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Neuropsychologia, 107, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.002
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?? sleep spindlesmemoryfalse memorysleep consolidationhemispheric lateralisationcognitive neurosciencebehavioral neuroscienceexperimental and cognitive psychology ??
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88591
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Deposited On:
06 Nov 2017 16:36
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