ArticleNeurobiology of aging2016
Emotional bias of sleep-dependent processing shifts from negative to positive with aging.
Article in Neurobiology of aging, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04141722 (AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN SLEEP-DEPENDENT EMOTIONAL MEMORY), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Age-related changes in sleep-dependent emotional memory
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sleep and affect: A conceptual review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Preferential Consolidation of Emotional Memory During Sleep: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Sleep Preserves Physiological Arousal in Emotional Memory.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Sleep dependent autonomic correlates of affect and arousal in younger and older adults.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Does sleep change the emotional bias in memory in older adults?Neuropsychologia · 2025Article
- Nighttime is the right time: the time interval to overnight sleep following an embarrassing experience does not influence long-term emotional responses to its reactivated episode.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- The effects of shared, depression-specific, and anxiety-specific internalizing symptoms on negative and neutral episodic memories following post-learning sleep.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Emotional memory consolidation during sleep is associated with slow oscillation-spindle coupling strength in young and older adults.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2023Article
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- Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The Role of Working Memory in Age-Related Emotional Memory Bias.Affective science · 2022Article
- Investigating the effects of sleep and sleep loss on the different stages of episodic emotional memory: A narrative review and guide to the future.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
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- Sleep and human cognitive development.Sleep medicine reviews · 2021Review
- Does Sleep Selectively Strengthen Certain Memories Over Others Based on Emotion and Perceived Future Relevance?Nature and science of sleep · 2021Review
- Role of Napping for Learning across the Lifespan.Current sleep medicine reports · 2020Article
- Sleep preserves subjective and sympathetic emotional response of memories.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2019Article
- Association of Internet Use with Attitudes Toward Food Safety in China: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Age differences in the relationship between cortisol and emotional memory.Psychology and aging · 2019Article
- Sleep facilitates consolidation of positive emotional memory in healthy older adults.Memory (Hove, England) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Age-related memory decline has been proposed to result partially from impairments in memory consolidation over sleep. However, such decline may reflect a shift toward selective processing of positive information with age rather than impaired sleep-related mechanisms. In the present study, young and older adults viewed negative and neutral pictures or positive and neutral pictures and underwent a recognition test after sleep or wake. Subjective emotional reactivity and affect were also measured. Compared with waking, sleep preserved valence ratings and memory for positive but not negative pictures in older adults and negative but not positive pictures in young adults. In older adults, memory for positive pictures was associated with slow wave sleep. Furthermore, slow wave sleep predicted positive affect in older adults but was inversely related to positive affect in young adults. These relationships were strongest for older adults with high memory for positive pictures and young adults with high memory for negative pictures. Collectively, these results indicate preserved but selective sleep-dependent memory processing with healthy aging that may be biased to enhance emotional well-being.
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