ReviewFrontiers in psychology2015
Sleep smart-optimizing sleep for declarative learning and memory.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.
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35 citing papers in PubMed.
- Lack of frequency-tagged magnetic responses suggests statistical regularities remain undetected during NREM sleep.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- Central Nervous Insulin Signaling in Sleep-Associated Memory Formation and Neuroendocrine Regulation.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2016Trial
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- GABAergic Signaling Underlying REM Sleep Deprivation-Induced Spatial Working Memory Deficits.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recognition and testimony memory: differential effects in young and older adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Sleep and Learning: A Systematic Review.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2024Review
- Sex Differences in Sleep Architecture After Traumatic Brain Injury: Potential Implications on Short-Term Episodic Memory and Recovery.Neurotrauma reports · 2024Article
- Respiration modulates sleep oscillations and memory reactivation in humans.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Illustrations of interactions needed when investigating sleep using a type of AM-PM PM-AM design.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Review
- One-week sleep hygiene education improves episodic memory in young but not in older adults during social isolation.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- No evidence for a preferential role of sleep in episodic memory abstraction.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Pedagogical Strategies for the Enhancement of Medical Education.Medical science educator · 2021Article
- Prior Exposure and Toddlers' Sleep-Related Memory for Novel Words.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Melatonin supplementation in the subacute phase after ischemia alleviates postischemic sleep disturbances in rats.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Mindfulness and Other Simple Neuroscience-Based Proposals to Promote the Learning Performance and Mental Health of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Slow wave activity moderates the association between new learning and traumatic brain injury severity.Sleep · 2021Article
- Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
- How to optimize knowledge construction in the brain.NPJ science of learning · 2020Review
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Abstract
The last decade has witnessed a spurt of new publications documenting sleep's essential contribution to the brains ability to form lasting memories. For the declarative memory domain, slow wave sleep (the deepest sleep stage) has the greatest beneficial effect on the consolidation of memories acquired during preceding wakefulness. The finding that newly encoded memories become reactivated during subsequent sleep fostered the idea that reactivation leads to the strengthening and transformation of the memory trace. According to the active system consolidation account, trace reactivation leads to the redistribution of the transient memory representations from the hippocampus to the long-lasting knowledge networks of the cortex. Apart from consolidating previously learned information, sleep also facilitates the encoding of new memories after sleep, which probably relies on the renormalization of synaptic weights during sleep as suggested by the synaptic homeostasis theory. During wakefulness overshooting potentiation causes an imbalance in synaptic weights that is countered by synaptic downscaling during subsequent sleep. This review briefly introduces the basic concepts and central findings of the research on sleep and memory, and discusses implications of this lab-based work for everyday applications to make the best possible use of sleep's beneficial effect on learning and memory.
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