Search Results - "McDevitt, Elizabeth A."
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Human hippocampal replay during rest prioritizes weakly learned information and predicts memory performance
Published in Nature communications (25-09-2018)“…The hippocampus replays experiences during quiet rest periods, and this replay benefits subsequent memory. A critical open question is how memories are…”
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Personality and healthy sleep: the importance of conscientiousness and neuroticism
Published in PloS one (20-03-2014)“…Although previous research has shown personality and sleep are each substantial predictors of health throughout the lifespan, little is known about links…”
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The critical role of sleep spindles in hippocampal-dependent memory: a pharmacology study
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (06-03-2013)“…An important function of sleep is the consolidation of memories, and features of sleep, such as rapid eye movement (REM) or sleep spindles, have been shown to…”
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Quantifying sleep architecture dynamics and individual differences using big data and Bayesian networks
Published in PloS one (11-04-2018)“…The pattern of sleep stages across a night (sleep architecture) is influenced by biological, behavioral, and clinical variables. However, traditional measures…”
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Autonomic activity during sleep predicts memory consolidation in humans
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-06-2016)“…Throughout history, psychologists and philosophers have proposed that good sleep benefits memory, yet current studies focusing on the relationship between…”
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The impact of frequent napping and nap practice on sleep-dependent memory in humans
Published in Scientific reports (10-10-2018)“…Napping benefits long-term memory formation and is a tool many individuals use to improve daytime functioning. Despite its potential advantages, approximately…”
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Coupling of autonomic and central events during sleep benefits declarative memory consolidation
Published in Neurobiology of learning and memory (01-01-2019)“…•We find temporal coupling between Autonomic and Central Events (ACEs) during sleep.•ACE sleep physiology is important for post-sleep memory…”
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Heart rate variability during daytime naps in healthy adults: Autonomic profile and short-term reliability
Published in Psychophysiology (01-04-2016)“…In healthy individuals, a reduction in cardiovascular output and a shift to parasympathetic/vagal dominant activity is observed across nocturnal sleep. This…”
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Free-living cross-comparison of two wearable monitors for sleep and physical activity in healthy young adults
Published in Physiology & behavior (01-04-2016)“…Abstract There is a growing need for free-living monitoring of the full 24 h spectrum of behaviors with a single or integrated set of sensors. The validity of…”
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The role of sleep and practice in implicit and explicit motor learning
Published in Behavioural brain research (25-12-2010)“…Sleep is hypothesized to play a functional role in the consolidation of memory, with more robust findings for implicit, than explicit memory. Previous studies…”
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Sleep after practice reduces the attentional blink
Published in Attention, perception & psychophysics (01-08-2015)“…The attentional blink (AB) is an impairment in detecting the second of two targets that appear in close temporal succession. We investigated the effect of…”
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Novel Electrophysiological Signatures of Learning and Forgetting in Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (12-06-2024)“…Despite the known behavioral benefits of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, discrete neural oscillatory events in human scalp electroencephalography (EEG) linked…”
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REM sleep rescues learning from interference
Published in Neurobiology of learning and memory (01-07-2015)“…•When interference occurs after consolidation, AW supports perceptual learning (PL).•Retroactive interference is more damaging to PL than proactive…”
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Perceptual learning induces changes in early and late visual evoked potentials
Published in Vision research (Oxford) (01-11-2018)“…Studies of visual cortical responses following visual perceptual learning (VPL) have produced diverse results, revealing neural changes in early and/or…”
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Progressive muscle relaxation increases slow‐wave sleep during a daytime nap
Published in Journal of sleep research (01-10-2022)“…Summary Sleep is critical for health, cognition, and restorative processes, and yet, many experience chronic sleep restriction. Sleep interventions have been…”
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Direct comparison of two actigraphy devices with polysomnographically recorded naps in healthy young adults
Published in Chronobiology international (01-06-2013)“…The last 20 yrs have seen a marked increase in studies utilizing actigraphy in free-living environments. The aim of the present study is to directly compare…”
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The Temporal Dynamics of Motor Memory across Wake and Sleep
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Sleep Benefits Memory for Semantic Category Structure While Preserving Exemplar-Specific Information
Published in Scientific reports (01-11-2017)“…Semantic memory encompasses knowledge about both the properties that typify concepts (e.g. robins, like all birds, have wings) as well as the properties that…”
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The effect of interference, offline sleep, and wake on spatial statistical learning
Published in Neurobiology of learning and memory (01-09-2022)“…•Sleep does not benefit spatial statistical learning when learning occurs in a low interference condition.•Spatial statistical learning may be vulnerable to…”
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The effect of sex and menstrual phase on memory formation during a nap
Published in Neurobiology of learning and memory (01-11-2017)“…•Women show better verbal memory than men.•Perimenses women show less memory improvement than non-perimenses women and men.•Men and women may rely on different…”
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