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(2022-12-31 17:34):
#paper doi: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2202394119,Sleep facilitates spatial memory but not navigation using the Minecraft Memory and Navigation tas,PNAS这篇文章是今年10月刚发表的,基于《我的世界》这个游戏分别研究了睡眠对于导航能力、导航记忆的作用。之前的研究已经证实睡眠可以促进海马相关的记忆,而我们知道海马可以支持空间环境的获取和内部表征,也就是海马可以支持认知地图的形成,认知地图是通过环境探索构建的,是导航的重要表征。那么,推出睡眠可以促进导航相关的记忆就是相当自然的。但是,之前的研究者对于睡眠对导航相关空间记忆的作用的研究结果却不乐观,有一些证实了该推测,而有一些没有。本文研究者认为,睡眠对导航相关空间记忆的作用,要拆成睡眠对空间记忆的作用,以及睡眠对导航能力的作用两部分来看。研究结果支持睡眠促进空间记忆,但不能促进导航能力。
IF:9.400Q1
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
2022-10-25.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2202394119
PMID: 36252023
Sleep facilitates spatial memory but not navigation using the Minecraft Memory and Navigation task
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Sleep facilitates hippocampal-dependent memories, supporting the acquisition and maintenance of internal representation of spatial relations within an environment. In humans, however, findings have been mixed regarding sleep's contribution to spatial memory and navigation, which may be due to task designs or outcome measurements. We developed the Minecraft Memory and Navigation (MMN) task for the purpose of disentangling how spatial memory accuracy and navigation change over time, and to study sleep's independent contributions to each. In the MMN task, participants learned the locations of objects through free exploration of an open field computerized environment. At test, they were teleported to random positions around the environment and required to navigate to the remembered location of each object. In study 1, we developed and validated four unique MMN environments with the goal of equating baseline learning and immediate test performance. A total of 86 participants were administered the training phases and immediate test. Participants' baseline performance was equivalent across all four environments, supporting the use of the MMN task. In study 2, 29 participants were trained, tested immediately, and again 12 h later after a period of sleep or wake. We found that the metric accuracy of object locations, i.e., spatial memory, was maintained over a night of sleep, while after wake, metric accuracy declined. In contrast, spatial navigation improved over both sleep and wake delays. Our findings support the role of sleep in retaining the precise spatial relationships within a cognitive map; however, they do not support a specific role of sleep in navigation.
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