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•Broad behavioural and neurophysiological support for consolidation during
sleep.•Neurophysiological support for sleep enhancing forgetting and new learning.•Large …

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 …

When an episode of emotional significance is encountered, it often results in the formation of
a highly resistant memory representation that is easily retrieved for many succeeding years …

Much of our long-term knowledge is organised in complex networks. Sleep is thought to be
critical for abstracting knowledge and enhancing important item memory for long-term …

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

Prior research has demonstrated that sleep enhances memory for future-relevant
information, including memory for information that is salient due to emotion, reward, or …

Emotional events are preferentially retained in episodic memory. This effect is commonly
attributed to enhanced consolidation and has been linked specifically to rapid eye …

A wealth of behavioral evidence suggests that performance improves more following
intervals containing wake compared to intervals containing sleep. This sleep benefit reflects …

Memory consolidation benefits from post-training sleep. However, recent studies suggest
that sleep does not uniformly benefit all memory, but instead prioritizes information that is …