Overnight neuronal plasticity and adaptation to emotional distress

Y Cabrera, KJ Koymans, GR Poe, HW Kessels… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Expressions such as 'sleep on it'refer to the resolution of distressing experiences across a
night of sound sleep. Sleep is an active state during which the brain reorganizes the …

The interplay between memory control and emotion regulation

Y Luo, R Wang, H Xie, Z He - Annals of the New York Academy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Memory control (MC) and emotion regulation (ER) are critical cognitive functions for
adapting to life's challenges, drawing significant research attention. Accumulating evidence …

Item-specific neural representations during human sleep support long-term memory

J Liu, T Xia, D Chen, Z Yao, M Zhu, JW Antony… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Understanding how individual memories are reactivated during sleep is essential in
theorizing memory consolidation. Here, we employed the targeted memory reactivation …

Behavioral and brain responses to verbal stimuli reveal transient periods of cognitive integration of the external world during sleep

B Türker, EM Musat, E Chabani, A Fonteix-Galet… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Sleep has long been considered as a state of behavioral disconnection from the
environment, without reactivity to external stimuli. Here we questioned this 'sleep …

Aversive memories can be weakened during human sleep via the reactivation of positive interfering memories

T Xia, D Chen, S Zeng, Z Yao, J Liu, S Qin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Recollecting painful or traumatic experiences can be deeply troubling. Sleep may offer an
opportunity to reduce such suffering. We developed a procedure to weaken older aversive …

Memory reactivation in slow wave sleep enhances relational learning in humans

L Santamaria, I Kashif, N McGinley… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Sleep boosts the integration of memories, and can thus facilitate relational learning. This
benefit may be due to memory reactivation during non-REM sleep. We set out to test this by …

An update on recent advances in targeted memory reactivation during sleep

J Carbone, S Diekelmann - npj Science of Learning, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR) is a noninvasive tool to manipulate memory
consolidation during sleep. TMR builds on the brain's natural processes of memory …

Modulating social learning-induced evaluation updating during human sleep

D Chen, T Xia, Z Yao, L Zhang, X Hu - npj Science of Learning, 2024 - nature.com
People often change their evaluations upon learning about their peers' evaluations, ie,
social learning. Given sleep's vital role in consolidating daytime experiences, sleep may …

Targeted memory reactivation to augment treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder

AC van der Heijden, YD van der Werf… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder with traumatic memories at its
core. Post-treatment sleep may offer a unique time window to increase therapeutic efficacy …

Reactivating Cue Approached Positive Personality Traits During Sleep Promotes Positive Self-Referential Processing

Z Yao, T Xia, J Wei, Z Zhang, X Lin, D Zhang, P Qin… - iScience, 2024 - Elsevier
People preferentially endorse positive personality traits as more self-descriptive than
negative ones, a positivity self-referential bias. Here, we investigated how to enhance …