Pre-experimental sleep effects on directed forgetting.

This study implemented a point system in place of remember and forget instructions in a DF task with the goal of computing DF costs and benefits. Relations among memory, sleep, and working memory capacity (WMC) were also examined. DF benefits were observed in both groups, with negative costs found for participants without the presence of insomnia symptoms. WMC was found to be related to memory for positive point items only, and did not differ based on sleep quality. These results suggest that the presence of self-reported insomnia symptoms does not affect performance on a DF task. PMID: 32058921 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Conscious Cogn Source Type: research