Sleep Deprivation and Language Learning, 2017-2021

This research demonstrated that although new memories for individual items can be acquired rapidly, the process of discovering regularities across individual items to permit generalisation requires a period of overnight memory consolidation. The aim of the present research project is to discover whether sleep is the critical factor in the acquisition of general linguistic knowledge, and further, to describe the neural processes arising during sleep that facilitate this form of learning. This collection contains stimuli, data, and analysis code for the article: Tamminen, J. et al. (2020). Generalisation in language learning can withstand total sleep deprivation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 173, 107274. Data and data documentation are housed on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/2kyrd/).