Occipital sleep spindles predict sequence learning in a visuo-motor task.
Nicolas D LutzMarie AdmardElsa GenzoniJan BornKarsten RaussPublished in: Sleep (2021)
These findings suggest a sleep-dependent improvement in the prediction of visual sequences, likely related to visual cortex reactivation during sleep spindles. Considering that controls in our experiments did not fully exclude oculomotor contributions, future studies will need to address the extent to which these effects depend on purely perceptual versus oculomotor sequence learning.