Influence of a Sleeping Verses Waking Retention Interval on Spatial Visual Auditory Memory Performance

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2003

Publisher

Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology

Abstract

We investigated the influence of a retention interoal spent sleeping or waking on participants' performance in spatial, auditory, and visual tasks. Usingjenkins and Dallenbach 's research ( 1924) as a paradigm, we replicated and extended the original study using a 2 X 3 mixed design with repeated measures. The 2 independent variables were the activity during the retention interoal (i.e., sleeping or waking) and the 3 types of memory tasks (i.e., spatial, auditory, and visual). Fifty-seven undergraduate students participated in 2 sessions. Results indicate that a retention interoal spent sleeping had a beneficial effect on auditory memory performance. We did not find a significant effect for visual and spatial memory performance, but attribute this to ceiling effects within the experimental design.

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