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Sleep's effects on cognition and learning in adolescence

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dc.contributor.authorCarskadon, M.A.
dc.contributor.editorDongen, H.H.
dc.contributor.editorKerkhof, G.A.
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractAdolescence is accompanied by striking changes in sleep behavior and in the phenomenology of sleep. Maturational changes in the central nervous system underlie changes in adolescent sleep structure. Sleep behaviors change during adolescence in response to maturational changes in sleep regulatory processes and competing behaviors. This pattern leads to insufficient sleep for many teens on school nights. Associations of reduced sleep with poorer school performance beg the question of how prelearning and posttraining sleep affect the learning process. Thus, insufficient sleep can impair acquisition and retrieval when sleep reduction results in sleepiness, irritability, distractibility, inattention, and lack of motivation. Strong evidence indicates that adequate sleep enhances memory consolidation and resistance to interference. Hence, insufficient sleep can also threaten learning by jeopardizing this part of the memory formation process.
dc.identifier.citationSource details - Title: Human Sleep and Cognition, Part II: Clinical and Applied Research, 2011 / Dongen, H.H., Kerkhof, G.A. (ed./s), Ch.8, pp.137-143
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/B978-0-444-53817-8.00008-6
dc.identifier.isbn9780444538178
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/158393
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofseriesProgress in brain research, 190
dc.rightsCopyright 2011 Elsevier BV
dc.source.urihttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unisa/detail.action?docID=686826#
dc.subjectadolescence
dc.subjectlearning
dc.subjectsleep
dc.subjectperformance
dc.titleSleep's effects on cognition and learning in adolescence
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9915909476001831

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