Emotional memories are enhanced when reactivated in slow wave sleep, but impaired when reactivated in REM
Çağrı Yüksel, Dan Denis, James Coleman, Boyu Ren, Angela Oh, Roy Cox, Alexandra Morgan, Erina Sato, Robert Stickgold
The paper investigates how emotional memory consolidation during sleep stages affects memory retention, finding that reactivating memories during slow wave sleep enhances them, while reactivation during REM impairs them.
bioRxiv · Mar 1, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience