Learning, memory, and sleep in humans

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-30

  Payne, Jessica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Memory; Rapid eye movement sleep; Slow wave sleep

Indexed keywords

NEUROHORMONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ARTICLE; EMOTIONALITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

EID: 79951923494     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2010.12.005     Document Type: Review

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