[HTML][HTML] About sleep's role in memory

B Rasch, J Born - Physiological reviews, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the
retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of “sleep and …

EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance. I: A review of cognitive and affective outcome in healthy participants

JH Gruzelier - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
A re-emergence of research on EEG-neurofeedback followed controlled evidence of clinical
benefits and validation of cognitive/affective gains in healthy participants including …

Local sleep and learning

R Huber, M Felice Ghilardi, M Massimini, G Tononi - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Human sleep is a global state whose functions remain unclear. During much of sleep,
cortical neurons undergo slow oscillations in membrane potential, which appear in …

The role of sleep in cognition and emotion

MP Walker - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
As critical as waking brain function is to cognition, an extensive literature now indicates that
sleep supports equally important, different yet complementary operations. This review will …

Sleep-dependent learning and memory consolidation

MP Walker, R Stickgold - Neuron, 2004 - cell.com
While the functions of sleep remain largely unknown, one of the most exciting and
contentious hypotheses is that sleep contributes importantly to memory. A large number of …

Sleep, memory, and plasticity

MP Walker, R Stickgold - Annu. Rev. Psychol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Although the functions of sleep remain largely unknown, one of the most exciting
hypotheses is that sleep contributes importantly to processes of memory and brain plasticity …

A complementary systems account of word learning: neural and behavioural evidence

MH Davis, MG Gaskell - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this paper we present a novel theory of the cognitive and neural processes by which
adults learn new spoken words. This proposal builds on neurocomputational accounts of …

Contributions of the basal ganglia and functionally related brain structures to motor learning

J Doyon, P Bellec, R Amsel, V Penhune… - Behavioural brain …, 2009 - Elsevier
This review discusses the cerebral plasticity, and the role of the cortico-striatal system in
particular, observed as one is learning or planning to execute a newly learned motor …

The whats and whens of sleep-dependent memory consolidation

S Diekelmann, I Wilhelm, J Born - Sleep medicine reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Sleep benefits memory consolidation. The reviewed studies indicate that this consolidating
effect is not revealed under all circumstances but is linked to specific psychological …

The contribution of sleep to hippocampus-dependent memory consolidation

L Marshall, J Born - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2007 - cell.com
There is now compelling evidence that sleep promotes the long-term consolidation of
declarative and procedural memories. Behavioral studies suggest that sleep preferentially …