Does sleep selectively strengthen certain memories over others based on emotion and perceived future relevance?

P Davidson, P Jönsson, I Carlsson… - Nature and Science of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Sleep has been found to have a beneficial effect on memory consolidation. It has
furthermore frequently been suggested that sleep does not strengthen all memories equally …

Investigating the effects of sleep and sleep loss on the different stages of episodic emotional memory: a narrative review and guide to the future

TJ Cunningham, R Stickgold… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
For two decades, sleep has been touted as one of the primary drivers for the encoding,
consolidation, retention, and retrieval of episodic emotional memory. Recently, however …

Reward biases spontaneous neural reactivation during sleep

V Sterpenich, MKM van Schie, M Catsiyannis… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sleep favors the reactivation and consolidation of newly acquired memories. Yet, how our
brain selects the noteworthy information to be reprocessed during sleep remains largely …

Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments

D Denis, KEG Sanders… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Research suggests that sleep benefits memory. Moreover, it is often claimed that sleep
selectively benefits memory for emotionally salient information over neutral information …

[HTML][HTML] Intrusive memories: A mechanistic signature for emotional memory persistence

N Herz, Y Bar-Haim, EA Holmes, N Censor - Behaviour Research and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Memories of negative emotional events persist more over time relative to memories for
neutral information. Such persistence has been attributed to heightened encoding and …

Sleep differentially impacts involuntary intrusions and voluntary recognitions of lab‐analogue traumatic memories

S Zeng, EYY Lau, SX Li, X Hu - Journal of Sleep Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the critical role of sleep in memory and emotion processing, large remains unknown
regarding how sleep influences trauma‐related symptoms arising from maladaptive …

Go to bed and you might feel better in the morning—the effect of sleep on affective tone and intrusiveness of emotional memories

P Davidson, E Pace-Schott - Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review It is important to examine what effect sleep has after an
emotional experience. More knowledge about this topic could help inform us whether there …

[HTML][HTML] Why we sleep: a hypothesis for an ultimate or evolutionary origin for sleep and other physiological rhythms

AS Freiberg - Journal of circadian rhythms, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although sleep is ubiquitous, its evolutionary purpose remains elusive. Though every
species of animal, as well as many plants sleep, theories of its origin are purely …

The role of sleep and wakefulness in the recognition of emotional pictures

G Carollo, G Degasperi, N Cellini - Journal of Sleep Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sleep has a beneficial effect on memory consolidation. However, its role in emotional
memory is currently debated. Here, we investigate the role of sleep and a similar period of …

Sharp wave-ripples in human amygdala and their coordination with hippocampus during NREM sleep

R Cox, T Rüber, BP Staresina… - Cerebral cortex …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cooperative interactions between the amygdala and hippocampus are widely regarded as
critical for overnight emotional processing of waking experiences, but direct support from the …