Babies form a memory for grammatical relationships, even without sleep NatureComms
In order to assess the immediate formation of memories during familiarisation, we performed within-subjects ANOVAs on the ERP data of the encoding session with three factors: Familiarity , Laterality , and Region . To evaluate retention, generalisation, and their dependency on sleep, we conducted ANOVAs on the data of the memory test phase with the within-subject factors Regularity , Old/New , Laterality, and Region as well as the between-subject factor Group .
The algorithm for the detection of discrete sleep spindles was the same as in our previous infant studies
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