Our everyday lives present us with a continuous stream of multi-modal sensory inputs. While
most of this information is soon forgotten, sensory information associated with salient …

There is now compelling evidence that sleep promotes the long-term consolidation of
declarative and procedural memories. Behavioral studies suggest that sleep preferentially …

Accumulating evidence suggests that sleep is important for plasticity and memory
consolidation (Maquet, 2001; Walker and Stickgold, 2004; Datta and Maclean, 2007; …

Over the past two decades, research has accumulated compelling evidence that sleep
supports the formation of long-term memory. The standard two-stage memory model that has …

The human brain faces a fundamental information storage challenge—forming useful new
memories while not over-writing important old ones. Memory consolidation, and the …

Memory representations are reactivated during slow-wave sleep (SWS) after learning, and
these reactivations cause a beneficial effect of sleep for memory consolidation. Memory …

Sleep has been identified as a state that optimizes the consolidation of newly acquired
information in memory, depending on the specific conditions of learning and the timing of …

Highlights•Consolidation supports remembering specifics and generalizing across
experiences.•Sleep, and slow-wave sleep in particular, is important for memory …

After encoding, memory traces are initially fragile and have to be reinforced to become
permanent. The initial steps of this process occur at a cellular level within minutes or hours …

Recent research has shown compellingly that sleep supports the consolidation of
declarative memories for events and facts. During consolidation, memories are stabilized …