کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5041381 1474017 2017 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
ReviewNovel word learning in older adults: A role for sleep?
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
یادگیری لغت در بزرگسالان سالمند: نقش برای خواب؟
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی روانپزشکی بیولوژیکی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Sleep is beneficial for language learning in children and young adults.
- Older adults have deficits in both sleep quality and language usage.
- Language learning may be reduced as a consequence of sleep deficits associated with aging.

Sleep is an offline period during which newly acquired semantic information is transformed into longer-lasting memories. Language acquisition, which requires new word learning and semantic integration, is preferentially benefitted by a period of sleep in children and young adults. Specific features of sleep (e.g., sleep stage characteristics) have been associated with enhanced language acquisition and generalization. However, with increasing age, even in healthy individuals, sleep quality and quantity decrease. Simultaneously, deficits in word retrieval and new word learning emerge. Yet it is unknown whether age-related alterations in language ability are linked with alterations in sleep. The goal of this review is to examine changes in language learning and sleep across the lifespan. We consider how sleep detriments that occur with aging could affect abilities to learn novel words and semantic generalization and propose hypotheses to motivate future research in this area.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Brain and Language - Volume 167, April 2017, Pages 106-113
نویسندگان
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