0081 Parasympathetic Activity During Sleep, But Not Wake, Facilitates Working Memory Improvement: A Comparison Of Young And Older Adults

[摘要] IntroductionFor centuries, the autonomic nervous system (ANS) has been thought to contribute to the processing of emotionally-laden information. More recently, the parasympathetic branch of the ANS has been implicated in executive function, with higher parasympathetic activity during wake associated with better working memory (WM). Compared with wake, sleep is a period with substantially greater parasympathetic tone, and sleep facilitates WM. Yet, the role of this sleep-dependent boost in parasympathetic activity for WM is not known.

[学科分类] 生理学