The activities of the mind and brain never cease. Although many of our waking hours are
spent processing sensory input and executing behavioral responses, moments of …

Newly encoded memory traces are spontaneously reactivated during sleep. Since their
discovery in the 1990s, these memory reactivations have been discussed as a potential …

Converging evidence and new research methodologies from across the neurosciences
permit the neuroscientific study of the role of sleep in off-line memory reprocessing, as well …

Intrinsic and historical weaknesses delayed the spread of a sound neurobiological
investigation on dreaming. Nevertheless, recent independent findings confirm the …

It is now well established that postlearning sleep is beneficial for human memory
performance [1–5]. Meanwhile, human and animal studies have demonstrated that learning …

Even when we are ostensibly doing “nothing”—as during states of rest, sleep, and reverie—
the brain continues to process information. In resting wakefulness, the mind generates …

Converging evidence suggests that dreaming is influenced by the consolidation of memory
during sleep. Following encoding, recently formed memory traces are gradually stabilized …

How and why does the sleeping brain generate dreams? Though the question is old, a
paradigm shift is now occurring in the science of sleep and dreaming that is making room for …

Dreams are a remarkable experiment in psychology and neuroscience, conducted every
night in every sleeping person. They show that the human brain, disconnected from the …

Semantic representations in higher sensory cortices form the basis for robust, yet flexible
behavior. These representations are acquired over the course of development in an …