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We spend about one-third of our life either sleeping or attempting to do so
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The categorical effect of negative emotion on memory before and after sleep deprivation
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Sleep Preserves Physiological Arousal in Emotional Memory
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Sleep deprivation induces fragmented memory loss
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Sleep bolsters schematically incongruent memories
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Immediate as well as delayed post learning sleep but not wakefulness enhances declarative memory consolidation in children
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Psychophysiological reactivity to sleep-related emotional stimuli in primary insomnia
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Processing of Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Memory over Sleep
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Temporal dynamics of the influence of pre- or anticipated post-sleep stress on dream content
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Stress dynamically reduces sleep depth: Temporal proximity to the stressor is crucial
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Overanxious and underslept
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A new behavioural intervention to enhance memory in older people–evening autobiographical recall
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109191 · 2025 · External reference
Rapid adaptation of predictive models during language comprehension: Aperiodic EEG slope, individual alpha frequency and idea density modulate individual differences in real-time model updating
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Sleep—A brain-state serving systems memory consolidation
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Sleep spindles provide indirect support to the consolidation of emotional encoding contexts
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.09.016 · 2014 · External reference
Complementary Roles of Slow-Wave Sleep and Rapid Eye Movement Sleep in Emotional Memory Consolidation
10.1093/cercor/bht349 · 2015 · External reference
Memory Consolidation Is Linked to Spindle-Mediated Information Processing during Sleep
10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.087 · 2018 · External reference
Sleep preserves original and distorted memory traces
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The Benefits of Targeted Memory Reactivation for Consolidation in Sleep are Contingent on Memory Accuracy and Direct Cue-Memory Associations
10.5665/sleep.5772 · 2016 · External reference
Sleep and script-based memory distortions
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109210 · 2025 · External reference
An update on recent advances in targeted memory reactivation during sleep
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Shaping memory consolidation via targeted memory reactivation during sleep
2018 · External reference
The Fate of Emotional Memories Over a Week: Does Sleep Play Any Role?
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00481 · 2019 · External reference
The effects of targeted reactivation on memories cued once or multiple times during a nap
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Event-related neural response to emotional picture stimuli following sleep deprivation
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Memory encoding is impaired after multiple nights of partial sleep restriction
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Sleep selectively stabilizes contextual aspects of negative memories
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The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain
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Effects of aperiodic neural activity on sleep-based emotional memory consolidation across the lifespan
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No support for an effect of a daytime nap on the consolidation or generalization of fear learning
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10.1093/sleep/zsac280 · 2023 · External reference
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Dream content and adaptation to a stressful situation
10.1037/h0076648 · 1975 · External reference
Neural reactivation during human sleep
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Electrophysiological Mechanisms of Memory Consolidation in Human Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep
10.1007/s40675-024-00291-y · 2024 · External reference
Sleep Spindles Preferentially Consolidate Weakly Encoded Memories
10.1523/jneurosci.0818-20.2021 · 2021 · External reference
Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments
2022 · External reference
The memory function of sleep
10.1038/nrn2762 · 2010 · External reference
The whats and whens of sleep-dependent memory consolidation
10.1016/j.smrv.2008.08.002 · 2009 · External reference
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Memory Control: A Fundamental Mechanism of Emotion Regulation
10.1016/j.tics.2018.07.015 · 2018 · External reference
Slow wave sleep is associated with a reorganisation of episodic memory networks
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109267 · 2025 · External reference
The association of brain injury severity with dream cessation and nightmares
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109209 · 2025 · External reference
Sleep deprivation alters pupillary reactivity to emotional stimuli in healthy young adults
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Relationships between affect, vigilance, and sleepiness following sleep deprivation
10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00635.x · 2008 · External reference
Overnight emotional inertia in relation to depressive symptomatology and subjective sleep quality
10.1093/sleepadvances/zpac048 · 2023 · External reference
Sleep after learning aids memory recall
10.1101/lm.132106 · 2006 · External reference
Tired and Apprehensive: Anxiety Amplifies the Impact of Sleep Loss on Aversive Brain Anticipation
10.1523/jneurosci.5578-12.2013 · 2013 · External reference
Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Human Central and Peripheral Nervous System Discrimination of Social Threat
10.1523/jneurosci.5254-14.2015 · 2015 · External reference
Contribution of norepinephrine to emotional memory consolidation during sleep
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The Emerging Field of Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review
10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.271 · 1998 · External reference
Delineating memory reactivation in sleep with verbal and non-verbal retrieval cues
10.1093/cercor/bhae183 · 2024 · External reference
Sleep loss disrupts the neural signature of successful learning
10.1093/cercor/bhac159 · 2023 · External reference
Memory consolidation during sleep: A facilitator of new learning?
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109320 · 2026 · External reference
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Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory
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Losing Control: Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Suppression of Unwanted Thoughts
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Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain
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Insomnia: Symptom or diagnosis?
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Old Brains Come Uncoupled in Sleep: Slow Wave-Spindle Synchrony, Brain Atrophy, and Forgetting
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Recent advances in memory consolidation and information processing during sleep
10.1111/jsr.13607 · 2022 · External reference
Sleep Facilitates Consolidation of Emotional Declarative Memory
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01799.x · 2006 · External reference
Obliviscence during Sleep and Waking
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Emotional bias of sleep-dependent processing shifts from negative to positive with aging
10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.05.019 · 2016 · External reference
Dreaming as a Function of Chaos-Like Stochastic Processes in the Self-Organizing Brain
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Mechanisms of systems memory consolidation during sleep
2019 · External reference
Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109229 · 2025 · External reference
Manipulating memory processing during sleep to explore the critical duration of reactivation events
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109211 · 2025 · External reference
Sleep benefits emotional and neutral associative memories equally
10.1007/s11818-015-0034-4 · 2016 · External reference
Preferential Consolidation of Emotional Memory During Sleep: A Meta-Analysis
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01014 · 2019 · External reference
Sleep’s contribution to memory formation
10.1152/physrev.00054.2024 · 2026 · External reference
A registered report testing the effect of sleep on Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory: Greater lure and veridical recall but fewer intrusions after sleep
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Wake deterioration and sleep restoration of human learning
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The contribution of sleep to hippocampus-dependent memory consolidation
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Poorer sleep quality is associated with lower emotion-regulation ability in a laboratory paradigm
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Threat of Death and Autobiographical Memory: A Study of Passengers From Flight AT236
10.1177/2167702614542280 · 2015 · External reference
Do eye movements in REM sleep play a role in overnight emotional processing?
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109169 · 2025 · External reference
REM Sleep, Prefrontal Theta, and the Consolidation of Human Emotional Memory
10.1093/cercor/bhn155 · 2009 · External reference
Auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations modulates subsequent memory encoding through altered hippocampal function
10.1093/sleep/zsy031 · 2018 · External reference
Sleep loss and emotion: A systematic review and meta-analysis of over 50 years of experimental research
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Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109248 · 2025 · External reference
Sleep’s Role in the Consolidation of Emotional Episodic Memories
10.1177/0963721410383978 · 2010 · External reference
Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes
10.1037/a0038683 · 2015 · External reference
Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory for Emotional Components of Scenes
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02157.x · 2008 · External reference
Memory reactivations during sleep: A neural basis of dream experiences?
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Degradation of cortical representations during encoding following sleep deprivation
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About Sleep’s Role in Memory
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Impact of sleep restriction versus idealized sleep on emotional experience, reactivity and regulation in healthy adolescents
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Does sleep change the emotional bias in memory in older adults?
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The Functional Role of Dreaming in Emotional Processes
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Sleep’s impact on emotional recognition memory: A meta-analysis of whole-night, nap, and REM sleep effects
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Memory of Auschwitz survivors
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Auditory feedback blocks memory benefits of cueing during sleep
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Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing
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Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality
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Disentangling Sleep’s Role in Emotion processing
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109269 · 2025 · External reference
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Sleep and emotional processing
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The hippocampus as the switchboard between perception and memory
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Sleep and Emotional Memory Processing
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Sleep benefits subsequent hippocampal functioning
10.1038/nn.2253 · 2009 · External reference
REM Sleep Depotentiates Amygdala Activity to Previous Emotional Experiences
10.1016/j.cub.2011.10.052 · 2011 · External reference
Short naps improve subsequent learning in a high school setting
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Age-Related Changes in 1/f Neural Electrophysiological Noise
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Emotional Memory Formation Is Enhanced across Sleep Intervals with High Amounts of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
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Brief Sleep After Learning Keeps Emotional Memories Alive for Years
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The Role of Sleep in Cognition and Emotion
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Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing
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Modeling the mammalian sleep cycle
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Sleep and memory consolidation in healthy, neurotypical children, and adults: A summary of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
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How could physical activities and sleep influence affect inertia and affect variability? Evidence based on ecological momentary assessment
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Memory bias for negative emotional words in recognition memory is driven by effects of category membership
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The effect of selective REM-sleep deprivation on the consolidation and affective evaluation of emotional memories
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The human emotional brain without sleep—A prefrontal amygdala disconnect
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Sleep differentially impacts involuntary intrusions and voluntary recognitions of lab-analogue traumatic memories
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Sleep deprivation compromises resting-state emotional regulatory processes: An EEG study
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Evidence of an active role of dreaming in emotional memory processing shows that we dream to forget
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