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Zinke, Katharina; Wilhelm, Ines; Bayramoglu, Müge; Klein, Susanne; Born, Jan – Developmental Science, 2017
Sleep is considered to support the formation of skill memory. In juvenile but not adult song birds learning a tutor's song, a stronger initial deterioration of song performance over night-sleep predicts better song performance in the long run. This and similar observations have stimulated the view of sleep supporting skill formation during…
Descriptors: Children, Sleep, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Reactions
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Hsu, Hsinjen Julie; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Developmental Science, 2014
This study tested the procedural deficit hypothesis of specific language impairment (SLI) by comparing children's performance in two motor procedural learning tasks and an implicit verbal sequence learning task. Participants were 7- to 11-year-old children with SLI (n = 48), typically developing age-matched children (n = 20) and younger…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Sequential Learning, Perceptual Motor Learning