Sleep's role in the processing of unwanted memories

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 267-274

  Fischer, Stefan ^a   Diekelmann, Susanne ^b   Born, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directed forgetting; Memory; Rapid eye movement sleep; Slow wave sleep; Think no think

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DREAMING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SKILL; SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955114299     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2010.00881.x     Document Type: Article

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