Cognition, Behavior, and Memory<\/p>\n
Author:<\/strong> Matias Bonilla | Email:<\/strong> bonillamatias@gmail.com<\/p>\n Matias Bonilla 1\u00b0<\/sup>, Facundo A Urreta Benitez 1\u00b0<\/sup>, Candela S Le\u00f3n 1\u00b0<\/sup>, Camila Scheinsohn 1\u00b0<\/sup>, Zahira A Jimenez 1\u00b0<\/sup>, Camila Scrofani 1\u00b0<\/sup>, Julia Adba 1\u00b0<\/sup>, Cristian D Garc\u00eda Bauza 4\u00b0<\/sup>, Cecilia Forcato 1\u00b0<\/sup><\/p>\n 1\u00b0 Laboratorio de Sue\u00f1o y Memoria, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Approximately, 70% of erroneous convictions in the USA are attributed to flawed facial identifications. Recently, it has been observed that a period of sleep before facial recognition reduces the misidentification of innocent individuals when the perpetrator is absent from the lineup. However, a similar study did not show distinctions between sleeping and non-sleeping groups. Notably, neither of these studies objectively measured sleep. Slow Wave Sleep (SWS) plays a fundamental role in maintaining the synaptic homeostasis in the brain. SWS prevents the oversaturation of synaptic strength that occurs during wakefulness, enabling the encoding of new information upon waking. Hence, this study aimed to examine the role of sleep in memory discrimination during a lineup. Participants watched a video depicting a criminal act on day 1 and were immediately tested for free recall of the event. On day 2, half of the participants slept for 40 min while undergoing polysomnography, while the other half remained awake. Subsequently, they underwent facial recognition in a lineup and were evaluated for their recall of the event. Preliminary data suggests a trend indicating that a short nap before the lineup can increase correct recognitions in the lineup when the perpetrator is present. This study has the potential to revolutionize the judicial process by utilizing our understanding of sleep\u0092s role in memory to enhance the accuracy of facial recognition within the legal system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author: Bonilla Matias | email: bonillamatias@gmail.com | Cognition, Behavior, and Memory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-1","tag-cognition-behavior-and-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csan2023.saneurociencias.org.ar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n2\u00b0 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y Tecnol\u00f3gicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
\n3\u00b0 Innocence Project Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
\n4\u00b0 PLADEMA, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/p>\n