ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments.
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Abstract
Research suggests that sleep benefits memory. Moreover, it is often claimed that sleep selectively benefits memory for emotionally salient information over neutral information. However, not all scientists are convinced by this relationship [e.g., J. M. Siegel.
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