Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the
retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of “sleep and …

Daytime sleepiness, sleep deprivation, and irregular sleep schedules are highly prevalent
among college students, as 50% report daytime sleepiness and 70% attain insufficient …

Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are
substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep …

Creative thought relies on the reorganisation of existing knowledge. Sleep is known to be
important for creative thinking, but there is a debate about which sleep stage is most …

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech
in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Memory consolidation is the hypothetical process in which an item in memory is transformed
into a long-term form. It is commonly addressed at two complementary levels of description …

A fundamental question in memory research is how our brains can form enduring memories.
In humans, memories of everyday life depend initially on the medial temporal lobe system …

This paper reviews a novel hypothesis about the functions of slow wave sleep—the synaptic
homeostasis hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, plastic processes occurring during …

Human sleep is a global state whose functions remain unclear. During much of sleep,
cortical neurons undergo slow oscillations in membrane potential, which appear in …