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Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory for Emotional Components of Scenes
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Central aspects of emotional experiences are often well remembered at the expense of background details. Previous studies of such memory trade-offs have focused on memory after brief delays, but little is known about how these components of emotional memories change over time. We investigated the evolution of memory for negative scenes across 30 min, 12 daytime hours spent awake, and 12 nighttime hours including sleep. After 30 min, negative objects were well remembered at the expense of information about their backgrounds. Time spent awake led to forgetting of the entire negative scene, with memories of objects and their backgrounds decaying at similar rates. Sleep, in contrast, led to a preservation of memories of negative objects, but not their backgrounds, a result suggesting that the two components undergo differential processing during sleep. Memory for a negative scene develops differentially across time delays containing sleep and wake, with sleep selectively consolidating those aspects of memory that are of greatest value to the organism.
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“Our results are in line with studies and theoretical accounts proposing a role of sleep in the affective depotentiation of emotional memories.9,14,13,18,37”
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“Sleep is thought to enhance memory consolidation, particularly for emotional relative to neutral materials (Nishida, Pearsall, Buckner, & Walker, 2009; Payne, Chambers, & Kensinger, 2012; Payne, Stickgold, Swanberg, & Kensinger, 2008; Wagner, Gais, & Born, 2001).”
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“Some studies indeed demonstrated that sleep preferentially consolidates emotional over neutral memories (574,602,861,896,898,1276); however, others failed to reveal such effects (60,168,732,1147,1148).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Payne, J. D., Stickgold, R., Swanberg, K., & Kensinger, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Boston College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Payne, Jessica D.
- Kensinger, Elizabeth A.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-08
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 781-788
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- PMC
- PMC5846336
- OpenAlex
- W2163520994
- Cited by
- 440
- References
- 30
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- FWCI
- 12.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychological Science (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 Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- sleep-dependent memory consolidation, emotional memory, scene memory, memory decay, forgetting, time delay effects
- MeSH terms
- Arousal, Attention, Circadian Rhythm, Emotions, Humans, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Retention, Psychology, Sleep, Wakefulness
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