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Article Summary by Alyssa Talavera
Methods and
Materials
- Tested two main groups with two sub groups
- Woke Group/Sleep Group
- One group knows they will take the same exact test later, other does not know
Types of Tests
- Types of tests
- Dream Reports
- Motor Sequence Typing Task
- Participant asked to type one hand at a time in certain time intervals
- Virtual Maze
- Participant must navigate through maze on computer
Hypothesis
If a group of people were tested based on their memory during sleep and while they are awake, then, their memory will be better after their sleep because the memories will be consolidated.
Discussion/Conclusion
Citation
The experimenters concluded that both groups (asleep/awake and expected/unexpected) had about an equal amount of memory consolidation.
Background
Information
Wamsley EJ, Hamilton K, Graveline Y,
Manceor S, Parr E (2016, October
9) Test Expectation Enhances
Memory Consolidation across Both
Wake and Sleep Retreived from:
http://web.b.ebscohost.com/src_ic/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=5883bf7c-0eef-470d-90a7-
5faa554d68b2%40sessionmgr107&hid=116
Data and Results
Purpose
Many studies showed that sleep does not help memory,but instead prioritizes any information that the person deems important. The experimenters mentioned in the article wanted to try and prove that a person's memory is stronger when the person is asleep as opposed to someone who is awake.
- Disprove recent studies
- Memory will be consolidated (made stronger) during sleep
- VMT Time Average
- Awake Expected
- 248.9 seconds
- Awake Unexpected
- 230.8 seconds
- Sleep Expected
- 212.4 seconds
- Sleep Unexpected
- 230.9 Seconds
- MST Time Average
- Awake Expected
- 22.3 seconds
- Awake Unexpected
- 22.7 seconds
- Sleep Expected
- 22.6 seconds
- Sleep Unexpected
- 22.6 seconds