2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Stady on implicit learning during sleep

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24653218
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Experimental psychology
Research Institution	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Principal Investigator	KAIDA Kosuke 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, ヒューマンライフテクノロジー研究部門, 主任研究員 (80586264)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	睡眠 / 記憶 / 学習
Research Abstract	The aim of the present study was to investigate whether motor and perceptual implicit learning occurs during wakefulness and sleep. Laboratory experiments on humans confirmed that motor implicit learning occurs during wakefulness, while perceptual implicit learning was not observed during wakefulness. The results imply that motor action is necessary for implicit learning of skills which requires both motor and perceptual learning such as piano playing and keyboard tapping.