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Memory, Sleep, and Dreaming: Experiencing Consolidation
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It is now well established that post-learning sleep is beneficial for human memory performance. At the same time, it has long been known that learning experiences influence the content of subsequent sleep mentation (i.e., "dreaming"). Here, we review evidence that newly encoded memories are reactivated and consolidated in the sleeping brain, and that this process is directly reflected in the content of concomitant sleep mentation, providing a valuable window into the mnemonic functions of sleep.
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“Dreaming could reflect the reactivation and consolidation of memories during sleep (Nielsen and Stenstrom, 2005; Wamsley and Stickgold, 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wamsley, E. J., & Stickgold, R.
- Affiliations
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stickgold, Robert
- Venue
- Sleep Medicine Clinics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 97-108
- ISSN
- 1556-407X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3079906
- OpenAlex
- W2019357304
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 3.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Sleep Medicine Clinics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH048832)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- memory consolidation, sleep, dreams, memory reactivation, memory encoding
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