Trial reportScientific reports2019
Sleep Preserves Physiological Arousal in Emotional Memory.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Preferential consolidation of emotional reactivity during sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Sleep loss disrupts the neural signature of successful learning.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Trial
- The role of sleep and wakefulness in the recognition of emotional pictures.Journal of sleep research · 2022Trial
- Emotional Processing in a Nap Paradigm: The Role of Sleep Stages in Memory and Reactivity.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- A Chain mediation model linking experiential avoidance, cognitive flexibility, negative emotions, and sleep quality in university students.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Experimentally manipulating dream content by reactivating a remote emotional memory.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?Cognition · 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
- Disarming emotional memories using targeted memory reactivation during rapid eye movement sleep.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Delineating memory reactivation in sleep with verbal and non-verbal retrieval cues.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Overnight neuronal plasticity and adaptation to emotional distress.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Illustrations of interactions needed when investigating sleep using a type of AM-PM PM-AM design.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Review
- 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
- Effects of sleep on positive, negative and neutral valenced story and image memory.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 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
- Sleep bolsters schematically incongruent memories.PloS one · 2022Article
- Does Sleep Selectively Strengthen Certain Memories Over Others Based on Emotion and Perceived Future Relevance?Nature and science of sleep · 2021Review
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- The Comparison of Emotional Dysregulation and Experiential Avoidance in Patients with Insomnia and Non-Clinical Population.Journal of caring sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Traumatic experiences are associated with increased emotional arousal. Overnight consolidation strengthens the episodic content of emotional memories, but it is still unclear how sleep influences the associated arousal response. To investigate this question, we compared the effects of sleep and wake on psychophysiological and subjective reactivity during emotional memory retrieval. Participants provided affective ratings for negative and neutral images while heart rate deceleration (HRD) and skin conductance responses (SCRs) were monitored. Following a 12-hour delay of sleep or wakefulness, participants completed an image recognition task where HRD, SCRs and affective ratings were recorded again. HRD responses to previously-encoded ("old") negative images were preserved after sleep but diminished after wakefulness. No between-group difference in HRD was observed for novel negative images at recognition, indicating that the effects of sleep for old images were not driven by a generalised overnight increase in visceral activity, or circadian factors. No significant effects of sleep were observed for SCRs or subjective ratings. Our data suggest that cardiac arousal experienced at the time of encoding is sensitive to plasticity-promoting processes during sleep in a similar manner to episodic aspects of emotional memory.
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