In recent years, there has been increased attention toward the importance of sleep and its
essential role in athletic performance, cognition, health, and mental well-being. Many of …

Memory consolidation refers to the transformation over time of experience-dependent
internal representations and their neurobiological underpinnings. The process is assumed …

The cortex of the anterior pole of the brain can be subdivided, histologically and
physiologically, into three major parts. They have been most clearly identified and …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Remembering the sequence of events is critical for deriving meaning from our experiences
and guiding behavior. Prior investigations into the function of the human hippocampus have …

For the past two decades, it has generally been accepted that sleep benefits motor memory
consolidation processes. This notion, however, has been challenged by recent studies and …

Sleep benefits memory consolidation. Previous theoretical accounts have proposed a
differential role of slow-wave sleep (SWS), rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, and stage N2 …

Sequence learning underlies numerous motor, cognitive, and social skills. Previous models
and empirical investigations of sequence learning in humans and non-human animals have …

Numerous studies in the motor learning domain have demonstrated learning advantages of
self-controlled practice relative to yoked conditions. In separate lines of evidence in the …

Learning and memory for extinction of conditioned fear is a basic mammalian mechanism for
regulating negative emotion. Sleep promotes both the consolidation of memory and the …