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 …

The brain does not retain all the information it encodes in a day. Much is forgotten, and of
those memories retained, their subsequent evolution can follow any of a number of …

Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

Disturbances of sleep are typical for most depressed patients and belong to the core
symptoms of the disorder. Since the 1960s polysomnographic sleep research has …

The stability of long-term memories is enhanced by reactivation during sleep. Correlative
evidence has linked memory reactivation with thalamocortical sleep spindles, although their …

A fundamental feature of human memory is the propensity for beneficial changes in
information storage after initial encoding. Recent research findings favor the possibility that …

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 …

People recall more information after sleep than after an equally long period of wakefulness.
This sleep benefit in episodic memory has been documented in almost a century of …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

Consolidation makes it possible for memories of our daily experiences to be stored in an
enduring way. We propose that memory consolidation depends on the covert reactivation of …