- Sleep and related disorders
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2016-2020
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
2016-2020
Leiden University
2016-2020
Inadequate sleep impairs cognitive function and has been associated with worse academic achievement in higher education students; however, studies that control for relevant background factors include knowledge on hygiene are scarce. This study examined the association of chronic reduction (i.e. symptoms such as shortness sleep, sleepiness irritation), subjective quality (grades credits) concentration among 1378 students (71% female, mean age 21.73 years, SD = 3.22) Netherlands. Demographic,...
Whereas short and problematic sleep are associated with psychological problems in adolescence, causality remains to be elucidated. This study therefore utilized the discordant monozygotic cotwin design cross-lagged models investigate how affect functioning.Adolescent twins (N = 12,803, 13-20 years, 42% male) completed questionnaires on functioning repeatedly over a two-year interval. Monozygotic twin pairs were classified as concordant or for duration trouble sleeping. Resulting subgroups...
Abstract The macro‐ and microstructural characteristics of sleep electroencephalography have been associated with several aspects executive functioning. However, only a few studies addressed the association learning involved in acquisition functions, no study has investigated this for planning problem‐solving skills developing brain children. present examined whether children's stages are performance improvement over repeated assessments Tower Hanoi task, which requires integrated skills....
Effectiveness of memory consolidation is determined by multiple factors, including sleep after learning, emotional valence, arousal and novelty. Few studies investigated how the effect compares with (and interacts with) these other which virtually none are in children. The present study did so repeated assessment declarative 386 children (45% boys) aged 9-11 years through an online word-pair task. Children were randomly assigned to either a morning or evening learning session 30 unrelated...