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Changes in Emotional Responses to Aversive Pictures Across Periods Rich in Slow-Wave Sleep Versus Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
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Objective Since Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams," sleep has been related to emotional functions, where dreams were assumed to play a cathartic role. In psychophysiological research, this role was attributed mainly to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The present study compared processing pictures with negative emotional impact over intervals covering either early sleep dominated by slow-wave sleep (SWS) or late REM sleep-dominated sleep. Method Emotional reactions were assessed by a nonverbal rating procedure along the two emotional dimensions valence (positive vs. negative) and arousal (low vs. high). Two groups of healthy men were tested across 3-hour periods of early and late nocturnal sleep (sleep group) or corresponding intervals filled with wakefulness (wake group). After the intervals, subjects rated new pictures together with old pictures already presented before the interval. Sleep was recorded polysomnographically. Results As expected, the amount of REM sleep was about three times greater during late than early nocturnal sleep, whereas a reversed distribution was observed for SWS (p Conclusions Indicating a priming-like enhancement of emotional reactivity after periods rich in REM sleep, results do not confirm a cathartic function of REM sleep or sleep in general.
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“While these studies quite compellingly showed that declarative memory for neutral materials is enhanced by SWS, emotional declarative memories appear to additionally benefit from REM-rich late sleep (1273, 1274).”
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“While these studies quite compellingly showed that declarative memory for neutral materials is enhanced by SWS, emotional declarative memories appear to additionally benefit from REM-rich late sleep (1273, 1274).”
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“With respect to emotional reactivity, one study showed that REM sleep-rich sleep amplified subjectively experienced aversion to previously viewed emotional pictures (1273).”
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- Authors
- Wagner, U.
- Affiliations
- University of Lübeck (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Wagner, U.
- ORCID
- Wagner, U.
- Venue
- Psychosomatic Medicine
- Published
- 2002-07-01
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 627-634
- ISSN
- 0033-3174 (ISSN-L)
- 1534-7796
- OpenAlex
- W2013586907
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- FWCI
- 1.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Psychosomatic Medicine (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Keywords
- REM sleep, slow-wave sleep, emotional reactivity, valence, arousal, sleep and emotion, catharsis, dream function
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Electroencephalography, Electromyography, Electrooculography, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, Judgment, Male, Nonverbal Communication, Pituitary-Adrenal System, Surveys and Questionnaires, Random Allocation, Saliva, Semantics, Sleep, Sleep, REM, Visual Perception, Polysomnography
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