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Sleep Does Not Help Relearning Declarative Memories in Older Adults Emilie Gerbier, Guillaume T Sleep Does not Help Relearning Declarative Memories in Older Adults Emilie Gerbier, Guillaume T. Vallet, Thomas Toppino, Stéphanie Mazza To cite this version: Emilie Gerbier, Guillaume T. Vallet, Thomas Toppino, Stéphanie Mazza. Sleep Does not Help Re- learning Declarative Memories in Older Adults. 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Jul 2019, Montreal, Canada. hal-02296233 HAL Id: hal-02296233 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02296233 Submitted on 25 Sep 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Sleep Does not Help Relearning Declarative Memories in Older Adults Emilie Gerbier ([email protected]) Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, BCL, France, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice Cedex 4, France Guillaume T. Vallet ([email protected]) Université Clermont Auvergne, LaPSCo (UMR CNRS 6024) 17, rue Paul Collomp, 63037 Clermont-Ferrand, France Thomas C. Toppino ([email protected]) Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Villanova University 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA Stéphanie Mazza ([email protected]) Université Lyon 1, CRNL, INSERM U1028, HESPER Hôpital Neurologique, 59 Boulevard Pinel, 69677 Bron, France Abstract complementary processes. First, the reactivation or “replay” How sleep affects memory in older adults is a critical topic, of recent memory traces during slow-wave sleep (SWS) since age significantly impacts both sleep and memory. For causes declarative memories that are initially hippocampal- declarative memory, previous research reports contradictory dependent to become increasingly dependent on the results, with some studies showing sleep-dependent memory prefrontal cortex (Takashima et al., 2009). In parallel, a consolidation and some other not. We hypothesize that this downscaling process during sleep leads to the recalibration of discrepancy may be due to the use of recall as the memory synaptic connections that were modified during learning measure, a demanding task for older adults. The present paper (Tononi & Cirelli, 2014). The overnight memory focuses on the effect of sleep on relearning, a measure that proved useful to reveal subtle, implicit memory effects. improvement has been clearly demonstrated in young adults Previous research in young adults showed that sleeping after but is more controversial in older adults (Harand et al., 2012). learning was more beneficial to relearning the same Swahili- Sleep undergoes both quantitative and qualitative changes French word pairs 12 hours later, compared with the same over the course of ageing. The most obvious change in sleep interval spent awake. In particular, those words that could not in healthy older adults is a decrease in total sleep time (TST) be recalled were relearned faster when participants previously induced by an increase in the time spent awake both after slept. The effect of sleep was also beneficial for retention after bedtime (i.e., sleep latency) and during the night (Carrier et a one-week and a 6-month delay. The present study used the same experimental design in older adults aged 71 on average al., 1997). As a result, sleep efficiency (i.e., ratio TST / time but showed no significant effect of sleep on consolidation, on in bed) declines and reaches 79% or less at age 70 (Bliwise, relearning, or on long-term retention. Thus, even when using et al., 2005) compared to about 90% in healthy adults. Sleep relearning speed as the memory measure, the consolidating architecture is also modified, with a reduction in SWS effect of sleep in older adults was not demonstrated, in (Lombardo et al., 1998), whereas time in lighter stages (non- alignment with some previous findings. Rapid Eye Movement nREM1 and nREM2) increases Keywords: sleep-dependent memory consolidation; ageing; (Ohayon et al., 2004). However, the time spent in REM sleep learning; relearning; repeated practice remains relatively unchanged. Modifications in sleep microstructure are also observed. A reduced spectral EEG Sleep, Memory, and Age power is observed, in particular for slow-wave activity The importance of sleep in cognitive functioning is now (SWA) during SWS, especially over the prefrontal cortex well established. For instance, sleep has been shown to (Dubé et al., 2015). Spindle density, frequency, and duration benefit the consolidation of declarative memories acquired are also diminished (Crowley et al., 2002; Guazzelli et al., during the day. It is usually observed that sleeping after a 1986), as well as the density of phasic REM phases (Darchia, learning episode improves recall performance during a test Campbell, & Feinberg, 2003). Thus, many sleep components compared to the same delay without sleep (see Rasch & Born, underpinning sleep-related memory consolidation in young 2013, for a comprehensive review). Such memory adults, such as SWA and spindle activity, are reduced with consolidation is thought to originate from two increasing age (Carrier et al., 2011; Martin et al., 2013). Aging is also associated with declarative memory changes. Method Overall, older adults exhibit poorer memory recall while their recognition performance remains relatively spared (e.g. Participants Danckert & Craik, 2013; see Grady & Craik, 2000 for review). They also exhibit an increasing difficulty to learn Forty French healthy participants completed the study. new material compared to the younger adults, because of They were aged between 65 and 80 and had normal sleep and poor encoding strategies (see Craik & Rose, 2012, for cognitive abilities. Participants with sleep problems, as review). These effects might be mainly explained by an assessed by a score of 8 or above on the Pittsburgh Sleep impairment in forming associations (Old & Naveh-Benjamin, Quality Index (PSQI; Buysse et al., 1989), or presenting 2008). altered cognition, as assessed by a score below 27 in the It has been proposed that changes in sleep may contribute Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE; Folstein, Folstein, to age-related memory impairments (Buckley & Schatzberg, & McHugh, 1975), were excluded. Health information was 2005; Hornung, Danker-Hopfe, & Heuser, 2005; Mander et gathered from all participants during an interview about their al., 2014; see Scullin & Bliwise, 2015). A proposed medical history and medication. Participants with a medical mechanism (Mander et al., 2013) is that reduction of gray history and/or taking medications with known sensory or matter volume associated with aging impedes the generation neurological effects were also excluded. All participants in of SWA and spindles during sleep, thereby impairing the study were native French-speaking and present normal or memory consolidation. corrected-to-normal vision. The present study was in Despite these age-related changes in sleep, some research accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible reported the persistence of! sleep-dependent memory committee on human experimentation of the Helsinki consolidation in the older adult (Aly & Moscovitch, 2010; Declaration of 1975, as! revised in 2000. Informed written Sonni & Spencer, 2015; Wilson et al., 2012), whereas others consent was obtained from each participant. failed to demonstrate it or demonstrated a lesser Furthermore, all participants underwent a neuro- consolidation compared to young adults (Baran, Mantua, & psychological and sleep assessment with sleep quality Spencer, 2016; Cherdieu et al., 2014; Mander et al., 2013, (PSQI), circadian topology (the Horne and Ostberg 2014; Mary, Schreiner, & Peigneux, 2013; Scullin, 2013; morning/evening questionnaire; Horne & Ostberg, 1976), Scullin et al., 2017). Other research described a more level of sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale; Johns, 1991), complex picture (Jones et al., 2016). basic long-term and short-term memory capacity (subtests Most of these studies used free- or cued-recall performance from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV, Wechsler, as a measure of consolidation. Such measures may be 2008, and from the Wechsler Memory Scale III; Wechsler, suboptimal to reveal consolidation and may thus contribute 1997), global cognitive ability (MMSE), and anxiety and to the contradictory findings, especially since recall is a depression levels (The Hospital Anxiety and Depression demanding task specifically impaired in the older adult (e.g. Scale; Zigmond & Snaith, 1983). Troyer, Graves, & Cullum, 1994; Danckert & Craik, 2013). The participants were randomly assigned to the Sleep or the In addition, these measures are binary (i.e., correct/incorrect) Wake group. Three participants did not pursue the and are poorly informative as to the strength of a memory experiment after having spent too much time completing the trace. It seems possible to assess memory retention in an learning session. Eventually, the data from 19 participants in alternative, more implicit manner by measuring how fast the Sleep and 18 in the Wake group were included for participants relearn the information (i.e., savings in analysis. Their age ranged from 65 to 80 (mean age
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