caa a22 4500 445354429 CHVBK 20180317142855.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00221-010-2497-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00221-010-2497-7 Offline consolidation of procedural skill learning is enhanced by negative emotional content [Elektronische Daten] [Amir Javadi, Vincent Walsh, Penelope Lewis] It is now well established that both procedural skills and episodic memories consolidate across periods of offline retention, and most particularly across periods of sleep. Such consolidation has been demonstrated to be more marked for emotional than for neutral episodes, but the interaction between emotionality and the offline consolidation of procedural skills has yet to be investigated. Here, we address this issue by examining the impact of an emotional background context at encoding upon the subsequent consolidation of mirror tracing, a well-studied procedural skill. We also consider the importance of sleep for such consolidation by manipulating the retention interval (over a day, overnight, or over 24h containing normal sleep). Our data show significantly greater offline improvements in the accuracy of mirror tracing when negative emotional content is present during the training phase when compared to when neutral or positive content is present. Furthermore, consolidation across a night of sleep is associated with faster and more accurate performance than consolidation across a day of wakefulness. These novel findings show that the emotional context in which a procedural skill is learned can impact upon subsequent offline consolidation. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Consolidation nationallicence Procedural memory nationallicence Procedural learning nationallicence Emotion nationallicence Sleep nationallicence Javadi Amir Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, London, UK aut Walsh Vincent Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, London, UK aut Lewis Penelope Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, London, UK aut Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 208/4(2011-02-01), 507-517 0014-4819 208:4<507 2011 208 221 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2497-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2497-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Javadi Amir Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Walsh Vincent Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lewis Penelope Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 208/4(2011-02-01), 507-517 0014-4819 208:4<507 2011 208 221 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer