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ArticleSleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society2026

Experimentally manipulating dream content by reactivating a remote emotional memory.

Henderson S Holder, Erin J Wamsley

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Article in Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Henderson S HolderFurman University, Department of Psychology and Department of Neuroscience, Greenville, SC 29613, United States.
Erin J WamsleyFurman University, Department of Psychology and Department of Neuroscience, Greenville, SC 29613, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4465-3890

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sleep and dreaming have long been hypothesized to serve a functional role in emotion regulation. Here, we investigated how reactivating highly emotional autobiographical memories prior to sleep affects dream content and subsequent emotional appraisal of these memories. Participants (

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dream affectdream contentdreamingemotion regulationmemory consolidationmemory reactivationsleep

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PMID42876788
PMCPMC13662216

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