Sleep inspires insight

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6972, 2004, Pages 352-355

  Wagner, Ullrich ^a   Gais, Steffen ^a   Haider, Hilde ^b   Verleger, Rolf ^a   Born, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

MENTAL RESTRUCTURING;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

SLEEP;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MEMORY; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; CREATIVENESS; HUMANS; LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 1642540214     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02223     Document Type: Article

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