Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

A supporting effect of sleep on memory consolidation was reported for different contents. Here, we investigated theinfluence of sleep on the transformation of previously learned route and place knowledge into survey knowledge, a more abstractrepresentation. The results support the assumption of both a consolidating as well as transforming effect: the wayfindingperformance in the test session - namely the usage of unfamiliar shortcuts - suggests a consolidating effect of sleep.