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0121 Sleep facilitates memory, but not navigation across the pubertal transition in the novel Minecraft Memory and Navigation Task

scientific article published in 2022

055 Novel sleep-dependent spatial memory and navigation task using Minecraft

Actigraphic assessment of a polysomnographic-recorded nap: a validation study.

scientific article

Age-related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

An opportunistic theory of cellular and systems consolidation

scientific article

Automatic detection of rapid eye movements (REMs): A machine learning approach

scientific article

Autonomic Activity during a Daytime Nap Facilitates Working Memory Improvement

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Autonomic activity during sleep predicts memory consolidation in humans

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Autonomic/Central Coupling Benefits Working Memory in Healthy Young Adults

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Childhood laterality and adult schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a prospective investigation

scientific article published in January 2005

Closed-Loop Targeted Memory Reactivation during Sleep Improves Spatial Navigation.

scientific article

Comparing Models of Sleep-dependent Memory Consolidation

Comparing the benefits of caffeine, naps and placebo on verbal, motor and perceptual memory

scientific article published on 08 May 2008

Comparing the cardiac autonomic activity profile of daytime naps and nighttime sleep.

scientific article

Coupling of Thalamocortical Sleep Oscillations Are Important for Memory Consolidation in Humans

scientific article

Coupling of autonomic and central events during sleep benefits declarative memory consolidation

Direct comparison of two actigraphy devices with polysomnographically recorded naps in healthy young adults

scientific article published on 30 May 2013

Does working memory improvement benefit from sleep in older adults?

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Free-living cross-comparison of two wearable monitors for sleep and physical activity in healthy young adults

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Heart rate variability during daytime naps in healthy adults: Autonomic profile and short-term reliability.

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Human Memories Can Be Linked by Temporal Proximity

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Human hippocampal replay during rest prioritizes weakly learned information and predicts memory performance

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Human hippocampal replay during rest prioritizes weakly-learned information and predicts memory performance

Impact of sex steroids and reproductive stage on sleep-dependent memory consolidation in women.

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Individual differences in compliance and agreement for sleep logs and wrist actigraphy: A longitudinal study of naturalistic sleep in healthy adults

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Massive online data annotation, crowdsourcing to generate high quality sleep spindle annotations from EEG data

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Midday napping in children: Associations between nap frequency and duration across cognitive, positive psychological well-being, behavioral, and metabolic health outcomes

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

Morning stimulant administration reduces sleep and overnight working memory improvement

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Napping helps preschoolers learn

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

Nighttime temperature and human sleep loss in a changing climate

scientific article

Nocturnal continuous glucose and sleep stage data in adults with type 1 diabetes in real-world conditions

scientific article

Perceptual deterioration is reflected in the neural response: fMRI study of nappers and non-nappers.

scientific article published on January 2008

Perceptual learning induces changes in early and late visual evoked potentials

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Personality and healthy sleep: the importance of conscientiousness and neuroticism

scientific article

Pharmacologically increasing sleep spindles enhances recognition for negative and high-arousal memories

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Progressive muscle relaxation increases slow-wave sleep during a daytime nap

scholarly article published in the Journal of Sleep Research

Psychostimulants may block long-term memory formation via degraded sleep in healthy adults

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Quantifying sleep architecture dynamics and individual differences using big data and Bayesian networks.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

REM sleep rescues learning from interference

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

REM, not incubation, improves creativity by priming associative networks

scientific article

Response to the letter to the editor from Dr. Kawada, "Comparison of two accelerometers for monitoring sleep: Agreement and validity".

scientific article published on 21 April 2016

Same-sex sexual attraction does not spread in adolescent social networks

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

Sex differences in sleep-dependent perceptual learning

scientific article

Short Duration Repetitive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation During Sleep Enhances Declarative Memory of Facts

scientific article published on 12 April 2019

Sleep Benefits Memory for Semantic Category Structure While Preserving Exemplar-Specific Information

scientific article published in November 2017

Sleep after practice reduces the attentional blink

scientific article

Sleep facilitates spatial memory but not navigation using the Minecraft Memory and Navigation task

scientific article published in 2022

Sleep-dependent learning and practice-dependent deterioration in an orientation discrimination task.

scientific article published on April 2008

Sleep-dependent learning: a nap is as good as a night

scientific article

Slow oscillation density and amplitude decrease across development in pediatric Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Spatio-temporal structure of sleep slow oscillations on the electrode manifold and its relation to spindles

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Stimulating the sleeping brain: Current approaches to modulating memory-related sleep physiology

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

Synaptic clustering within dendrites: an emerging theory of memory formation

scientific article

The Effect of Zolpidem on Memory Consolidation Over a Night of Sleep

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

The benefit of offline sleep and wake for novel object recognition

scientific article

The critical role of sleep spindles in hippocampal-dependent memory: a pharmacology study.

scientific article published on March 2013

The effect of nap frequency on daytime sleep architecture

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

The effect of narrowband 500 nm light on daytime sleep in humans

scientific article published on 28 January 2011

The effect of sex and menstrual phase on memory formation during a nap.

scientific article

The impact of frequent napping and nap practice on sleep-dependent memory in humans

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

The impact of psychostimulants on sustained attention over a 24-h period

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

The neural basis of the psychomotor vigilance task.

scientific article

The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration

scientific article published in July 2002

The road not taken: creative solutions require avoidance of high-frequency responses

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

The role of sleep and practice in implicit and explicit motor learning

scientific article

The spread of sleep loss influences drug use in adolescent social networks

scientific article

The time course and specificity of perceptual deterioration

scientific article

Timing between Cortical Slow Oscillations and Heart Rate Bursts during Sleep Predicts Temporal Processing Speed, but Not Offline Consolidation

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

To Nap, Perchance to DREAM: A Factor Analysis of College Students' Self-Reported Reasons for Napping

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Transient cholinergic enhancement does not significantly affect either the magnitude or selectivity of perceptual learning of visual texture discrimination

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Validation of an automated wireless system for sleep monitoring during daytime naps

scientific article published on 24 February 2014