Sleep is thought to support memory consolidation via reactivation of prior experiences, with
particular electrophysiological sleep signatures (slow oscillations (SOs) and sleep spindles) …

Sleep plays important roles in sensory and motor memory consolidation. Sleep oscillations,
reflecting neural population activity, involve the reactivation of learning-related neurons and …

Highlights•Current studies failed to replicate large effects of sleep-mediated memory
benefits.•Sleep benefits memory only under specific boundary conditions.•Sleep's effect on …

A commonly held view is that extended wakefulness is causal for a broad spectrum of
deleterious effects at molecular, cellular, network, physiological, psychological, and …

Although the exact functions of sleep remain a topic of debate, several hypotheses propose
that sleep benefits neuronal plasticity, which ultimately supports brain function and …

Sleep is essential for memory formation. Active systems consolidation maintains that
memory traces that are initially stored in a transient store such as the hippocampus are …

Sleep homeostasis is a complex neurobiologic phenomenon involving a number of
molecular pathways, neurotransmitter release, synaptic activity, and factors modulating …

Sleep is assumed to subserve homeostatic processes in the brain; however, the set point
around which sleep tunes circuit computations is unknown. Slow-wave activity (SWA) is …

Sleep deprivation disrupts hippocampal function and plasticity. In particular, long-term
memory consolidation is impaired by sleep deprivation, suggesting that a specific critical …

As well as consolidating memory, sleep has been proposed to serve a second important
function for memory, ie to free capacities for the learning of new information during …