ReviewPhysiological reviews2013
About sleep's role in memory.
Review in Physiological reviews, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 1,204 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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1,204 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 2,741 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation on cognitive functions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Effects of movement behaviors on preschoolers' cognition: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Pooled it
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- Remote Longitudinal Tracking of Sleep, Depression, and Cognition Across Early Adolescence: Protocol for a Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Obstructive sleep apnea severity associates with reduced phase-lag index functional connectivity during N2 sleep.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2026Article
- Emotional Processing in a Nap Paradigm: The Role of Sleep Stages in Memory and Reactivity.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Learning in plants: A conceptual and experimental primer.Learning & behavior · 2026Article
- Neuroplasticity after traumatic brain injury: mechanisms and clinical implications.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Review
- At-home limbic-targeted transcranial electrical stimulation during sleep: a feasibility study in healthy adults.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Article
- One night of closed-loop auditory stimulation during sleep enhances memory consolidation in patients with Alzheimer's Disease.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Invertebrate brains as diversified models for understanding sleep mechanisms and function.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
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- Routine Blood Indicators Combined With Sleep Questionnaires for the Identification of Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study With a Leakage-Free Nested Modeling Framework.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
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 memory" research by providing a historical perspective on concepts and a discussion of more recent key findings. Whereas initial theories posed a passive role for sleep enhancing memories by protecting them from interfering stimuli, current theories highlight an active role for sleep in which memories undergo a process of system consolidation during sleep. Whereas older research concentrated on the role of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, recent work has revealed the importance of slow-wave sleep (SWS) for memory consolidation and also enlightened some of the underlying electrophysiological, neurochemical, and genetic mechanisms, as well as developmental aspects in these processes. Specifically, newer findings characterize sleep as a brain state optimizing memory consolidation, in opposition to the waking brain being optimized for encoding of memories. Consolidation originates from reactivation of recently encoded neuronal memory representations, which occur during SWS and transform respective representations for integration into long-term memory. Ensuing REM sleep may stabilize transformed memories. While elaborated with respect to hippocampus-dependent memories, the concept of an active redistribution of memory representations from networks serving as temporary store into long-term stores might hold also for non-hippocampus-dependent memory, and even for nonneuronal, i.e., immunological memories, giving rise to the idea that the offline consolidation of memory during sleep represents a principle of long-term memory formation established in quite different physiological systems.
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