The Influence of Sleep on Relearning and Long-term Retention of Verbal Items

Raphaëlle Rebillart-Sauvaigo (1) , Emilie Gerbier (1) , Fabien Mathy (1)

1 BCL, équipe Langage et Cognition

We aimed to examine the generalizability of the results obtained by Mazza et al. (2016) on the effect of sleep on relearning and long-term retention. They showed that Swahili-French word pairs were relearned faster after a 12-hour interval when nocturnal sleep was interspersed during this interval, and that they were also better recalled one week later. They used an intensive relearning procedure using tests with feedback until a criterion of all 16 items correct in a row, possibly leading to overlearning. We replicated this original study with a less demanding criterion for relearning, i.e., one correct answer per item. The data are currently being collected. They will indicate whether the sleep effect on relearning and on long-term retention was due to the specific relearning methods, and possibly by overlearning, in Mazza et al.’s study, or whether they can be generalized to different relearning procedures.

Domaines: Psychologie; Psychologie

Raphaëlle Rebillart-Sauvaigo, Emilie Gerbier, Fabien Mathy. The Influence of Sleep on Relearning and Long-term Retention of Verbal Items. 21st conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sep 2019, Tenerife, Spain. ⟨hal-02487151⟩