Time of day and sleep effects on motor acquisition and consolidation

C Truong, C Ruffino, J Gaveau, O White, PM Hilt… - npj Science of …, 2023 - nature.com
We investigated the influence of the time-of-day and sleep on skill acquisition (ie, skill
improvement immediately after a training-session) and consolidation (ie, skill retention after …

Memory consolidation of sequence learning and dynamic adaptation during wakefulness

Y Wang, AT Huynh, S Bao, JJ Buchanan… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motor learning involves acquiring new movement sequences and adapting motor
commands to novel conditions. Labile motor memories, acquired through sequence learning …

Stride‐to‐Stride Fluctuations of Human Gait Are Affected By Chronobiology: An Exploratory Study

JR Vaz, LM Silva, N Stergiou - Advanced biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Physiological processes present daily oscillations of≈ 24 h, called circadian rhythms. Motor
performance, for example, reaches its peak in the afternoon, although this can be affected by …

Children exhibit a developmental advantage in the offline processing of a learned motor sequence

A Van Roy, G Albouy, RD Burns, BR King - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in specific behaviors across the lifespan are frequently reported as an
inverted-U trajectory. That is, young adults exhibit optimal performance, children are …

Unraveling the time-of-day influences on motor consolidation through the motor-declarative memory conflict

C Truong, C Papaxanthis, C Ruffino - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Competition between motor and declarative memory systems, both involved simultaneously
in motor learning, has been shown to reduce motor consolidation. Here, we investigated this …

Early sleep after action observation plus motor imagery improves gait and balance abilities in older adults

F Temporiti, E Galbiati, F Bianchi, AM Bianchi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Action observation plus motor imagery (AOMI) is a rehabilitative approach to improve gait
and balance performance. However, limited benefits have been reported in older adults …

Sequence-specific delayed gains in motor fluency evolve after movement observation training in the absence of early sleep

R Maaravi-Hesseg, S Cohen, A Karni - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Following physical practice, delayed, consolidation-phase, gains in the performance of the
trained finger-to-thumb opposition sequence (FOS) can be expressed, in young adults, only …

Time-of-day influences resting-state functional cortical connectivity

C Iester, M Biggio, S Cutini, S Brigadoi… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Time-of-day is rarely considered during experimental protocols investigating motor behavior
and neural activity. The goal of this work was to investigate differences in functional cortical …

Revisiting motor imagery guidelines in a tropical climate: The time-of-day effect

V Hatchi, A Guillot, N Robin - International Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Motor imagery (MI) is relevantly used to improve motor performance and
promote rehabilitation. As MI ability and vividness can be affected by circadian modulation, it …

Generalization in motor learning: learning bimanual coordination with one hand

Y Wang, MM Weinrich, Y Lei, DL Wright, M Sandhu… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The ability to coordinate movements between the hands is crucial for many daily tasks.
However, the precise mechanisms governing the storage and utilization of bimanual …