To sleep, to strive, or both: How best to optimize memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Tucker, Matthew A ^a,c   Tang, Sunny X ^b   Uzoh, Amaka ^b   Morgan, Alexandra ^c   Stickgold, Robert ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Sleep and Cognition   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; REWARD; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAKEFULNESS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; REWARD; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960585284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021737     Document Type: Article

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