People recall more information after sleep than after an equally long period of wakefulness.
This sleep benefit in episodic memory has been documented in almost a century of …

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 …

Memorization and generalization are complementary cognitive processes that jointly
promote adaptive behavior. For example, animals should memorize safe routes to specific …

How do we build up our knowledge of the world over time? Many theories of memory
formation and consolidation have posited that the hippocampus stores new information, then …

Sleep has been shown to be critical for memory consolidation, with some research
suggesting that certain memories are prioritized for consolidation. Initial strength of a …

Sleep promotes memory consolidation: the process by which newly acquired memories are
stabilised, strengthened, and integrated into long-term storage. Pioneering research in …

Sleep stabilizes newly acquired memories, a process referred to as memory consolidation.
According to recent studies, sleep-dependent consolidation processes might be deployed to …

Overnight consolidation processes are thought to operate in a selective manner, such that
important (ie future-relevant) memories are strengthened ahead of irrelevant information …

Newly formed memories are spontaneously reactivated during sleep, leading to their
strengthening. This reactivation process can be manipulated by reinstating learning‐related …

Our ability to recall memories is improved when sleep follows learning, suggesting that
sleep facilitates memory consolidation. A number of factors are thought to influence the …