Sleep quality: a narrative review on nutrition, stimulants, and physical activity as important factors

M Sejbuk, I Mirończuk-Chodakowska, AM Witkowska - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sleep is a cyclically occurring, transient, and functional state that is controlled primarily by
neurobiological processes. Sleep disorders and insomnia are increasingly being diagnosed …

Optimizing the methodology of human sleep and memory research

D Németh, E Gerbier, J Born, T Rickard… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the complex relationship between sleep and memory consolidation is a
major challenge in cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Many studies suggest that sleep …

Item-specific neural representations during human sleep support long-term memory

J Liu, T Xia, D Chen, Z Yao, M Zhu, JW Antony… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Understanding how individual memories are reactivated during sleep is essential in
theorizing memory consolidation. Here, we employed the targeted memory reactivation …

Updating memories of unwanted emotions during human sleep

T Xia, Z Yao, X Guo, J Liu, D Chen, Q Liu, KA Paller… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Post-learning sleep contributes to memory consolidation. Yet it remains contentious whether
sleep affords opportunities to modify or update emotional memories, particularly when …

Targeted memory reactivation during sleep can induce forgetting of overlapping memories

BH Joensen, MO Harrington, SC Berens… - Learning & …, 2022 - learnmem.cshlp.org
Memory reactivation during sleep can shape new memories into a long-term form.
Reactivation of memories can be induced via the delivery of auditory cues during sleep …

Memory reactivation in slow wave sleep enhances relational learning in humans

L Santamaria, I Kashif, N McGinley… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Sleep boosts the integration of memories, and can thus facilitate relational learning. This
benefit may be due to memory reactivation during non-REM sleep. We set out to test this by …

[HTML][HTML] Cueing emotional memories during slow wave sleep modulates next-day activity in the orbitofrontal cortex and the amygdala

SIR Pereira, ME Tsimpanouli, I Hutchison, J Schneider… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Emotional memories are preferentially consolidated during sleep, through the process of
memory reactivation. Targeted memory reactivation (TMR) has been shown to boost …

Targeted memory reactivation in human REM sleep elicits detectable reactivation

MEA Abdellahi, ACM Koopman, MS Treder, PA Lewis - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
It is now well established that memories can reactivate during non-rapid eye movement (non-
REM) sleep, but the question of whether equivalent reactivation can be detected in rapid eye …

Presenting rose odor during learning, sleep and retrieval helps to improve memory consolidation: a real-life study

J Knötzele, D Riemann, L Frase, B Feige, LT van Elst… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Improving our learning abilities is important for numerous aspects of our life. Several studies
found beneficial effects of presenting cues (odor or sounds) during learning and during …

An update on recent advances in targeted memory reactivation during sleep

J Carbone, S Diekelmann - npj Science of Learning, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR) is a noninvasive tool to manipulate memory
consolidation during sleep. TMR builds on the brain's natural processes of memory …