Different Patterns of Sleep-Dependent Procedural Memory Consolidation in Vipassana Meditation Practitioners and Non-meditating Controls.
Front Psychol January 23, 2020 Elizaveta Solomonova, Simon Dubé, Cloé Blanchette-Carrière et al. 9 citations
Vipassana meditation practitioners show different patterns of how sleep consolidates procedural memories compared to non-meditators. The study compared overnight memory retention in meditators and controls, finding that meditators exhibited distinct consolidation processes, suggesting that long-term meditation practice alters sleep-dependent memory processing.