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Top studies on Sleep & Memory

Ranked by influential-citation count and publication year.

1. 01

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

   Nature neuroscience·200397 influential citations

   The learning of perceptual skills has been shown in some cases to depend on the plasticity of the visual cortex and to require post-training nocturnal sleep. We now report that sleep-dependent learning of a texture discrimination task can…

2. 02

   Sleep-dependent learning and motor-skill complexity.

   Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)·200462 influential citations

   Learning of a procedural motor-skill task is known to progress through a series of unique memory stages. Performance initially improves during training, and continues to improve, without further rehearsal, across subsequent periods of…

3. 03

   Sleep's contribution to memory formation.

   Physiological reviews·202650 influential citations

   The brain state of sleep contributes in a specific way to the formation of long-term memory. Over the past 10 years, research on the psychological and neuronal mechanisms underlying this process has rapidly increased, including studies in…

4. 04

   Anticipated reward enhances offline learning during sleep.

   Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·200934 influential citations

   Sleep is known to promote the consolidation of motor memories. In everyday life, typically more than 1 isolated motor skill is acquired at a time, and this possibly gives rise to interference during consolidation. Here, it is shown that…

5. 05

   Posttraining increases in REM sleep intensity implicate REM sleep in memory processing and provide a biological marker of learning potential.

   Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)·200430 influential citations

   Posttraining rapid eye movement (REM) sleep has been reported to be important for efficient memory consolidation. The present results demonstrate increases in the intensity of REM sleep during the night of sleep following cognitive…

6. 06

   Cholinergic modulation of neural networks supports sequential and complementary roles for NREM and REM states in memory consolidation.

   PLoS computational biology·202528 influential citations

   Across vertebrate species, sleep consists of repeating cycles of NREM followed by REM. However, their respective functions, and their stereotypic cycling pattern are not well understood. Using a simplified biophysical network model, we…

7. 07

   Bayesian meta-analysis reveals the mechanistic role of slow oscillation-spindle coupling in sleep-dependent memory consolidation.

   eLife·202526 influential citations

   The active system consolidation theory suggests that information transfer between the hippocampus and cortex during sleep underlies memory consolidation in humans. Neural oscillations during sleep, including the temporal coupling between…

8. 08

   The influence of peripheral glucose on sleep brain oscillations.

   Sleep·202520 influential citations

   <h4>Study objectives</h4>Previous research indicates a coupling of sleep-associated brain activity to peripheral glucose levels, such that ripple activity, a sign of increased hippocampal memory processing, is followed within 10 min by a…

9. 09

   Sleep deprivation impairs object-selective attention: a view from the ventral visual cortex.

   PloS one·201016 influential citations

   <h4>Background</h4>Most prior studies on selective attention in the setting of total sleep deprivation (SD) have focused on behavior or activation within fronto-parietal cognitive control areas. Here, we evaluated the effects of SD on the…

10. 10

    REM sleep deprivation inhibits LTP in vivo in area CA1 of rat hippocampus.

    Neuroscience letters·20057 influential citations

    Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation has previously been shown to interfere with normal learning and memory and to inhibit long-term potentiation (LTP) in vitro. Previous studies on REM sleep deprivation and LTP have relied on in…