The power of negative and positive episodic memories

SE Williams, JH Ford, EA Kensinger - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2022 - Springer
The power of episodic memories is that they bring a past moment into the present, providing
opportunities for us to recall details of the experiences, reframe or update the memory, and …

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 …

Improving memory via automated targeted memory reactivation during sleep

NW Whitmore, JC Harris, T Kovach… - Journal of sleep …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A widely accepted view in memory research is that previously acquired information can be
reactivated during sleep, leading to persistent memory storage. Targeted memory …

Targeted Memory Reactivation during Nonrapid Eye Movement Sleep Enhances Neutral, But Not Negative, Components of Memory

D Denis, JD Payne - eneuro, 2024 - eneuro.org
Emotionally salient components of memory are preferentially remembered at the expense of
accompanying neutral information. This emotional memory trade-off is enhanced over time …

Disarming emotional memories using Targeted Memory Reactivation during Rapid Eye Movement sleep

V Greco, T Foldes, NA Harrison, K Murphey… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Emotional responses are dampened across sleep, and this is thought to be mediated by
neural reactivation during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep. Such reactivation can be …