Emerging studies across learning domains have shed light on mechanisms underlying
sleep's benefits during numerous developmental periods. In this conceptual review, we …

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 …

Everyday experience suggests that sleep and affect are closely linked, with daytime affect
influencing how we sleep, and sleep influencing subsequent affect. Yet empirical evidence …

Research suggests that sleep benefits memory. Moreover, it is often claimed that sleep
selectively benefits memory for emotionally salient information over neutral information …

Sleep has been found to have a beneficial effect on memory consolidation. It has
furthermore frequently been suggested that sleep does not strengthen all memories equally …

It is uncertain whether sleep preferentially consolidates emotional over neutral material.
Some studies suggest that sleep enhances emotional memory (ie, that there are large …

The mid-day nap, sometimes called a siesta, is a ubiquitous occurrence across the lifespan.
It is well established that in addition to reducing sleepiness, mid-day naps offer a variety of …

With age, parasympathetic activity decreases, while sympathetic activity increases. Thus, the
typical older adult has low heart rate variability (HRV) and high noradrenaline levels …

For two decades, sleep has been touted as one of the primary drivers for the encoding,
consolidation, retention, and retrieval of episodic emotional memory. Recently, however …

A period of post-learning sleep benefits memory consolidation compared with an equal-
length wake interval. However, whether this sleep-based memory consolidation changes as …