Werner Plihal
University of Bamberg
10 Papers
258 Citations
Werner Plihal is an academic researcher from University of Bamberg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Slow-wave sleep & Recall. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 10 publications. Previous affiliations of Werner Plihal include University of Lübeck & University of Göttingen.
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Papers
Effects of early and late nocturnal sleep on declarative and procedural memory
Werner Plihal,Jan Born +1 more
TL;DR: The experiments for the first time dissociate specific effects of early and late sleep on two principal types of memory, declarative and procedural, in humans, and the benefit from sleep on recall depended on the phase of sleep and on the type of memory.
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Early sleep triggers memory for early visual discrimination skills
TL;DR: It is suggested that procedural memory formation is prompted by slow-wave sleep-related processes, only after periods of early sleep have occurred and late REM sleep may promote memory formation at a second stage.
Memory consolidation in human sleep depends on inhibition of glucocorticoid release.
Werner Plihal,Jan Born +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown in healthy humans that an inhibition of glucocorticoid release from the adrenals serves to support declarative memory consolidation during sleep, and blocking mineralocortioid receptors by canrenoate did not affect memory, suggesting inactivation of glucOCorticoids receptors to be the essential prerequisite for memory consolidationduring early sleep.
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Dexamethasone blocks sleep induced improvement of declarative memory.
TL;DR: The natural inhibition of endogenous glucocorticoid secretion during early sleep seems to be essential for a sleep-related facilitation of declarative memory.
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The Effect of Food Deprivation on ERP During Identification of Tachistoscopically Presented Food-Related Words
TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of food deprivation on the identification of subliminally presented food-related words by means of event-related potentials found the P2 to food- related words was larger in hungry subjects compared to satiated subjects in all presentations.
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