Classical music, educational learning, and slow wave sleep: A targeted memory reactivation experiment

被引:14
作者
Gao, Chenlu [1 ]
Fillmore, Paul [2 ]
Scullin, Michael K. [1 ]
机构
[1] Baylor Univ, Dept Psychol & Neurosci, Waco, TX 76798 USA
[2] Baylor Univ, Dept Commun Sci & Disorders, Waco, TX 76798 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
STEM learning; Achievement gap; Sleep disparity; Knowledge transfer; Memory consolidation; THETA-OSCILLATIONS; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY; DEPRIVATION; KNOWLEDGE; DURATION; CUES; GAP;
D O I
10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107206
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Poor sleep in college students compromises the memory consolidation processes necessary to retain course materials. A solution may lie in targeting reactivation of memories during sleep (TMR). Fifty undergraduate students completed a college-level microeconomics lecture (mathematics-based) while listening to distinctive classical music (Chopin, Beethoven, and Vivaldi). After they fell asleep, we re-played the classical music songs (TMR) or a control noise during slow wave sleep. Relative to the control condition, the TMR condition showed an 18% improvement for knowledge transfer items that measured concept integration (d = 0.63), increasing the probability of "passing" the test with a grade of 70 or above (OR = 4.68, 95%CI: 1.21, 18.04). The benefits of TMR did not extend to a 9-month follow-up test when performance dropped to floor levels, demonstrating that long-term-forgetting curves are largely resistant to experimentally-consolidated memories. Spectral analyses revealed greater frontal theta activity during slow wave sleep in the TMR condition than the control condition (d = 0.87), and greater frontal theta activity across conditions was associated with protection against long-term-forgetting at the next-day and 9-month follow-up tests (rs = 0.42), at least in female students. Thus, students can leverage instrumental music-which they already commonly pair with studying-to help prepare for academic tests, an approach that may promote course success and persistence.
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