ArticleScientific reports2018
Sleep selectively stabilizes contextual aspects of negative memories.
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- Vagal heart rate variability during rapid eye movement sleep reduces negative memory bias.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- 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
- 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
- Reward biases spontaneous neural reactivation during sleep.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Does Sleep Selectively Strengthen Certain Memories Over Others Based on Emotion and Perceived Future Relevance?Nature and science of sleep · 2021Review
- Why We Sleep: A Hypothesis for an Ultimate or Evolutionary Origin for Sleep and Other Physiological Rhythms.Journal of circadian rhythms · 2020Article
- Sharp Wave-Ripples in Human Amygdala and Their Coordination with Hippocampus during NREM Sleep.Cerebral cortex communications · 2020Article
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Abstract
Sleep and emotion are both powerful modulators of the long-term stability of episodic memories, but precisely how these factors interact remains unresolved. We assessed changes in item recognition, contextual memory, and affective tone for negative and neutral memories across a 12 h interval containing sleep or wakefulness in 71 human volunteers. Our data indicate a sleep-dependent stabilization of negative contextual memories, in a way not seen for neutral memories, item recognition, or across wakefulness. Furthermore, retention of contextual memories was positively associated with the proportion of time spent in non-rapid eye movement sleep in a valence-independent manner. Finally, while affective responses to previously seen negative stimuli and to both old and new neutral stimuli decreased across an interval of sleep, effects for memorized items did not differ reliably between sleep and wake. These results add to our understanding of the complex interrelations among sleep, memory, and emotion.
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