Topic: post-learning sleep

Sleep benefits memory consolidation, especially the first hours following learning, as shown in humans and rodents. However, the effect of sex on both memory performance and its dependency on sleep remains poorly investigated. To investigate the interaction between sex and sleep on memory consolidation, we employed the Novel Object Recognition Test (NORT) in rodents, a task reliant on post-learning sleep for consolidation. Six-month-old male and female mice (n=10/group) were trained with two objects, followed by either undisturbed sleep (control group) or 5 hours of sleep deprivation (SD grou