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Pin‐Chun Chen, Katharine C.N.S. Simon, Negin S. Sattari…·Sara Carole Mednick
This study examines age-related differences in autonomic-central coupling during daytime sleep and its impact on working memory in older versus younger adults.
Pin‐Chun Chen, Hamid Niknazar, William A. Alaynick…·Sara Carole Mednick
The paper shows sleep involves competition between long-term and working memory processes, with a switch mechanism affecting cognitive performance.
Pin‐Chun Chen, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, Sara Carole Mednick
This study shows that increased parasympathetic activity during sleep improves working memory in young adults, unlike during wake.
Pin‐Chun Chen, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, Sara Carole Mednick
This study shows that coordinated autonomic and central events during sleep predict working memory improvement in young adults.