Interfering with Theories of Sleep and Memory: Sleep, Declarative Memory, and Associative Interference

@article{Ellenbogen2006InterferingWT,
  title={Interfering with Theories of Sleep and Memory: Sleep, Declarative Memory, and Associative Interference},
  author={Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen and Justin C. Hulbert and Robert Stickgold and David F. Dinges and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2006},
  volume={16},
  pages={1290-1294}
}
Mounting behavioral evidence in humans supports the claim that sleep leads to improvements in recently acquired, nondeclarative memories. Examples include motor-sequence learning; visual-discrimination learning; and perceptual learning of a synthetic language. In contrast, there are limited human data supporting a benefit of sleep for declarative (hippocampus-mediated) memory in humans (for review, see). This is particularly surprising given that animal models (e.g.,) and neuroimaging studies… Expand
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