The role of sleep in declarative memory consolidation: passive, permissive, active or none?

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 716-722

  Ellenbogen, Jeffrey M ^a   Payne, Jessica D ^a   Stickgold, Robert ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33751206185     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2006.10.006     Document Type: Review

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