Emotional Memory Formation Is Enhanced across Sleep Intervals with High Amounts of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

Wagner, Ullrich; Gais, Steffen; Born, Jan

doi:10.1101/lm.36801

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Emotional Memory Formation Is Enhanced across Sleep Intervals with High Amounts of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

Published in Learning & Memory • Mar 1, 2001

Authors:

Ullrich Wagner

Steffen Gais

Jan Born

Abstract

Recent studies indicated a selective activation during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep of the amygdala known to play a decisive role in the processing of emotional stimuli. This study compared memory retention of emotional versus neutral text material over intervals covering either early sleep known ...

Subject

Psychology

Sleep (system call)

Slow-wave sleep

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