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  • Memory retrieval can destabilize and restabilize memory traces.
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  • The interaction between motor memory reactivation and sleep-related consolidation is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the long-term effects of motor memory reactivation on performance.
  • To examine the influence of post-learning sleep (regular sleep vs. sleep deprivation) on motor memory consolidation.
  • To explore the interaction between motor memory reactivation and sleep on consolidation.

Main Methods:

  • Eighty participants learned a Serial Reaction Time Task (SRTT).
  • Participants experienced either regular sleep or sleep deprivation post-learning.
  • Motor memory reactivation was tested via SRTT in the morning or omitted.
  • Consolidation was assessed after three recovery nights.

Main Results:

  • No significant effects of reactivation, post-training sleep, or their interaction were found on proportional offline gains.
  • Behavioral performance did not show supplementary gains upon reactivation.
  • Post-learning sleep did not significantly improve performance.

Conclusions:

  • Reactivation of motor memories does not yield significant supplementary behavioral performance gains.
  • Post-learning sleep does not appear to enhance motor memory consolidation behaviorally.
  • Absence of overt behavioral effects does not exclude underlying covert neurophysiological changes during sleep or reconsolidation.