bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.13.948539; this version posted February 14, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Running head: SLEEP AND LANGUAGE LEARNING 1 Slow wave-spindle coupling during sleep predicts language learning and associated oscillatory activity Zachariah R. Cross1*, Randolph F. Helfrich2, Mark J. Kohler1, 3, Andrew W. Corcoran1,4, Scott Coussens1, Lena Zou-Williams1, Matthias Schlesewsky1, M. Gareth Gaskell5, Robert T. Knight6,7, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky1 1Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Research Hub and School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. 2Center for Neurology, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Germany. 3Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. 4Cognition and Philosophy Laboratory, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 5Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom. 6Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. 7Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. *Corresponding author: Tel. +61 8 8302 4375, e-mail:
[email protected] Manuscript details Number of pages: 41 Number of figures: 8 Abstract word count: 174 Introduction word count: 1,756 Discussion word count: 2,677 Data available at: TBC Code available at: TBC Funding: Preparation of this work was supported by Australian Commonwealth Government funding under the Research Training Program (RTP; number 212190) and Maurice de Rohan International Scholarship awarded to ZC.