The dream-lag effect: Selective processing of personally significant events during Rapid Eye Movement sleep, but not during Slow Wave Sleep

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 98-109

  van Rijn, E ^a   Eichenlaub, J B ^a,f   Lewis, P A ^b   Walker, M P ^c   Gaskell, M G ^d   Malinowski, J E ^e   Blagrove, M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dream; Dream lag; Memory consolidation; REM sleep; Sleep; Slow Wave Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DREAM; DREAM LAG EFFECT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; REM SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP STAGE; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; DREAMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929400609     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.01.009     Document Type: Article

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