Jessica D. Payne

This study shows that targeted memory reactivation during NREM sleep improves neutral memory but not negative memory, with sleep spindles mediating the effect for neutral items.

This study shows that stimulating the medial prefrontal cortex during memory encoding enhances emotional memory consolidation after a 24-hour delay but not immediately after encoding.

The paper shows sleep spindles help consolidate weakly encoded memories, reducing forgetting rates compared to staying awake.

The paper examines how stress affects the relationship between slow wave sleep and emotional memory, finding that slow oscillation-spindle coupling negatively correlates with memory in stressed individuals.

The paper investigates how stress and sleep affect memory of a social stressor environment, finding that NREM sleep physiology, not stress reactivity, is linked to memory retention in non-stressed individuals.