Sleep-dependent memory consolidation.

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MOCA Reference, APE

Publication Type: Journal Article

Authors: Stickgold, Robert

Year of Publication: 2005

Journal: Nature

Volume: 437

Issue: 7063

Pagination: 1272-8

Date Published: 2005 Oct 27

Publication Language: eng

ISSN: 1476-4687

Keywords: Animals, Cognition, Dreams, Hippocampus, Humans, Memory, sleep

Abstract:

The concept of 'sleeping on a problem' is familiar to most of us. But with myriad stages of sleep, forms of memory and processes of memory encoding and consolidation, sorting out how sleep contributes to memory has been anything but straightforward. Nevertheless, converging evidence, from the molecular to the phenomenological, leaves little doubt that offline memory reprocessing during sleep is an important component of how our memories are formed and ultimately shaped.

DOI: 10.1038/nature04286

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16251952?dopt=Abstract

Alternate Journal: Nature

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