Sleep-Dependent Learning and Memory Consolidation

A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring system for sleep stages of human subjects

1968 • 11,801 citations

A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring system for sleep stages of human subjects

1969 • 5,164 citations

Memory--a Century of Consolidation

2000 • 4,097 citations

Reactivation of Hippocampal Ensemble Memories During Sleep

1994 • 2,991 citations

Activity of norepinephrine-containing locus coeruleus neurons in behaving rats anticipates fluctuations in the sleep-waking cycle

1981 • 1,903 citations

How many memory systems are there?

1985 • 1,772 citations

A cortical–hippocampal system for declarative memory

2000 • 1,668 citations

Structure and function of declarative and nondeclarative memory systems

1996 • 1,298 citations

Practice with Sleep Makes Perfect

2002 • 1,249 citations

Sleep Cycle Oscillation: Reciprocal Discharge by Two Brainstem Neuronal Groups

1975 • 1,216 citations

Replay of Neuronal Firing Sequences in Rat Hippocampus During Sleep Following Spatial Experience

1996 • 1,140 citations

Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

2001 • 1,123 citations

Dissociable stages of human memory consolidation and reconsolidation

2003 • 1,016 citations

Effects of Early and Late Nocturnal Sleep on Declarative and Procedural Memory

1997 • 998 citations

Consolidation in human motor memory

1996 • 996 citations

Dependence on REM Sleep of Overnight Improvement of a Perceptual Skill

1994 • 993 citations

Sleep inspires insight

2004 • 980 citations

Coherent 40-Hz oscillation characterizes dream state in humans.

1993 • 961 citations

The function of dream sleep

1983 • 840 citations

Learning-Dependent Increases in Sleep Spindle Density

2002 • 832 citations

Early consolidation in human primary motor cortex

2002 • 779 citations

Experience-dependent changes in cerebral activation during human REM sleep

2000 • 737 citations

Visual discrimination learning requires sleep after training

2000 • 714 citations

Bidirectional synaptic plasticity induced by a single burst during cholinergic theta oscillation in CA1 in vitro

1995 • 634 citations

Extensive and Divergent Effects of Sleep and Wakefulness on Brain Gene Expression

2004 • 611 citations

Sleep-dependent learning: a nap is as good as a night

2003 • 586 citations

Sleep forms memory for finger skills

2002 • 578 citations

Emotional Memory Formation Is Enhanced across Sleep Intervals with High Amounts of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

2001 • 577 citations

Rapid Remodeling of Axonal Arbors in the Visual Cortex

1993 • 559 citations

The REM Sleep-Memory Consolidation Hypothesis

2001 • 559 citations

Visual Discrimination Task Improvement: A Multi-Step Process Occurring During Sleep

2000 • 555 citations

Early sleep triggers memory for early visual discrimination skills

2000 • 554 citations

Sleep Enhances Plasticity in the Developing Visual Cortex

2001 • 499 citations

Long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus is induced preferentially on the positive phase of θ-rhythm

1988 • 488 citations

Why do we sleep?11Published on the World Wide Web on 7 November 2000.

2000 • 487 citations

A refined model of sleep and the time course of memory formation

2005 • 472 citations

Microdialysis measurement of cortical and hippocampal acetylcholine release during sleep-wake cycle in freely moving cats

1995 • 470 citations

Sleep states and memory processes

1995 • 464 citations

Song Replay During Sleep and Computational Rules for Sensorimotor Vocal Learning

2000 • 456 citations

Sleep and the Time Course of Motor Skill Learning

2003 • 451 citations

Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language

2003 • 449 citations

Synchronized activities of coupled oscillators in the cerebral cortex and thalamus at different levels of vigilance [published erratum appears in Cereb Cortex 1997 Dec;7(8):779]

1997 • 437 citations

Awareness Modifies the Skill-Learning Benefits of Sleep

2004 • 430 citations

EMDR: A putative neurobiological mechanism of action

2001 • 423 citations

Synchronization of fast (30-40 Hz) spontaneous oscillations in intrathalamic and thalamocortical networks

1996 • 409 citations

Low acetylcholine during slow-wave sleep is critical for declarative memory consolidation

2004 • 403 citations

Neural correlates of perceptual learning: A functional MRI study of visual texture discrimination

2002 • 394 citations

Stimulation on the Positive Phase of Hippocampal Theta Rhythm Induces Long-Term Potentiation That Can Be Depotentiated by Stimulation on the Negative Phase in Area CA1In Vivo

1997 • 391 citations

Multiple shifts in the representation of a motor sequence during the acquisition of skilled performance

2003 • 369 citations

Gene expression in the brain across the sleep–waking cycle11Published on the World Wide Web on 30 October 2000.

2000 • 363 citations

Sleep states and memory processes in humans: procedural versus declarative memory systems

2001 • 349 citations

Sleeping brain, learning brain. The role of sleep for memory systems

2001 • 330 citations

Coherent oscillations and short-term plasticity in corticothalamic networks

1999 • 326 citations

The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration

2002 • 321 citations

Experience-dependent phase-reversal of hippocampal neuron firing during REM sleep

2000 • 313 citations

Learned material content and acquisition level modulate cerebral reactivation during posttraining rapid-eye-movements sleep

2003 • 311 citations

Sleep-Dependent θ Oscillations in the Human Hippocampus and Neocortex

2003 • 292 citations

Sleep-Induced Changes in Associative Memory

1999 • 281 citations

Long-Lasting Novelty-Induced Neuronal Reverberation during Slow-Wave Sleep in Multiple Forebrain Areas

2004 • 280 citations

Avoidance Task Training Potentiates Phasic Pontine-Wave Density in the Rat: A Mechanism for Sleep-Dependent Plasticity

2000 • 271 citations

Coalescence of sleep rhythms and their chronology in corticothalamic networks.

1998 • 260 citations

Cognitive flexibility across the sleep–wake cycle: REM-sleep enhancement of anagram problem solving

2002 • 259 citations

Brain Gene Expression During REM Sleep Depends on Prior Waking Experience

1999 • 254 citations

The Time Course of Neural Changes Underlying Auditory Perceptual Learning

2002 • 251 citations

Replaying the Game: Hypnagogic Images in Normals and Amnesics

2000 • 246 citations

Cellular and molecular connections between sleep and synaptic plasticity

2003 • 242 citations

The case against memory consolidation in REM sleep

2000 • 234 citations

Induction of Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation during Waking Leads to Increased Extrahippocampalzif-268Expression during Ensuing Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep

2002 • 234 citations

Short- and long-range neuronal synchronization of the slow (< 1 Hz) cortical oscillation

1995 • 233 citations

Sleep and memory: a molecular perspective

2001 • 218 citations

Impaired motor memory for a pursuit rotor task following Stage 2 sleep loss in college students

1994 • 213 citations

The Atonia and Myoclonia of Active (REM) Sleep

1990 • 207 citations

Sleep and Memory

1973 • 204 citations

Sleep-Related Consolidation of a Visuomotor Skill: Brain Mechanisms as Assessed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

2003 • 203 citations

Handbook of Behavioral State Control

1998 • 166 citations

Rapid Eye Movements and Remembering

1970 • 161 citations

Activation of Phasic Pontine-Wave Generator Prevents Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Deprivation-Induced Learning Impairment in the Rat: A Mechanism for Sleep-Dependent Plasticity

2004 • 160 citations

Pontogeniculooccipital waves: spontaneous visual system activity during rapid eye movement sleep

1987 • 157 citations

Intracellular and Computational Characterization of the Intracortical Inhibitory Control of Synchronized Thalamic Inputs In Vivo

1997 • 154 citations

Posttraining Sleep Enhances Automaticity in Perceptual Discrimination

2004 • 153 citations

The Intact and Sliced Brain

2001 • 145 citations

On the Functional Significance of c-fos Induction During the Sleep-waking Cycle

2000 • 133 citations

Intensive language learning and increases in rapid eye movement sleep: evidence of a performance factor

1989 • 132 citations

Patterns of Interference in Sequence Learning and Prism Adaptation Inconsistent With the Consolidation Hypothesis

2002 • 130 citations

Paradoxical sleep at selective times following training is necessary for learning

1982 • 129 citations

Alterations in acetylcholine release in the rat hippocampus during sleep-wakefulness detected by intracerebral dialysis

1990 • 123 citations

Paradoxical sleep: Prolonged augmentation following learning

1974 • 117 citations

REM sleep and memory consolidation

1978 • 117 citations

Rapid eye movement sleep deprivation modifies expression of long-term potentiation in visual cortex of immature rats

2002 • 116 citations

The consolidation hypothesis for REM sleep function: Stress and other confounding factors — A review

1984 • 115 citations

Differences in gene expression between sleep and waking as revealed by mRNA differential display

1998 • 106 citations

Prolonged increases in paradoxical sleep during and after avoidance-task acquisition.

1980 • 104 citations

Mechanisms Influencing Acquisition and Recall of Motor Memories

2002 • 104 citations

Influence of shock training and explicit fear-conditioned cues on sleep architecture in mice: strain comparison.

2003 • 101 citations

Prolonged increases in both PS and number of REMs following a shuttle avoidance task

1986 • 99 citations

Paradoxical sleep deprivation applied two days after end of training retards learning

1988 • 95 citations

REM sleep modifications following a Morse code learning session in humans

1989 • 93 citations

Firing properties of two types of nucleus raphe dorsalia neurons during the sleep-walking cycle and their responses to sensory stimuli

1986 • 82 citations

Sleep and Sleep Electroencephalogram in Depressed Patients Treated With Phenelzine

2001 • 81 citations

Influence of fear conditioning on elicited ponto-geniculo-occipital waves and rapid eye movement sleep.

2001 • 80 citations

Effect of Rem Sleep Deprivation on Learning and Recall by Humans

1972 • 77 citations

The Effect of REM Deprivation: Is It Detrimental, Beneficial, or Neutral?

1975 • 74 citations

Ponto-geniculo-occipital-wave suppression amplifies lateral geniculate nucleus cell-size changes in monocularly deprived kittens

1999 • 74 citations

The influence of sleep on auditory learning: a behavioral study

2004 • 70 citations

Some considerations on sleep and neural plasticity.

2001 • 69 citations

Ingestion of Ethanol Just Prior to Sleep Onset Impairs Memory for Procedural but not Declarative Tasks

2003 • 65 citations

The sequential hypothesis on sleep function. I. Evidence that the structure of sleep depends on the nature of the previous waking experience

1988 • 57 citations

REM Sleep Deprivation in Monocularly Occluded Kittens Reduces the Size of Cells in LGN Monocular Segment

1998 • 56 citations

REM sleep enhancement induced by different procedures improves memory retention in rats

2003 • 55 citations

The Structure of Sleep is Related to the Learning Ability of Rats

1993 • 49 citations

Improvement of shuttle-box avoidance following post-training treatment in paradoxical sleep deprivation platforms in rats

1988 • 49 citations

Some biochemical and behavioural aspects of the paradoxical sleep window.

1991 • 48 citations

Spatial learning on the Morris Water Maze Test after a short-term paradoxical sleep deprivation in the rat.

2000 • 46 citations

Development of learning and memory in mice after brief paradoxical sleep deprivation

1979 • 42 citations

The effects of moclobemide on nocturnal sleep of depressed patients

1990 • 39 citations

The sequential hypothesis of sleep function. III. The structure of postacquisition sleep in learning and nonlearning rats

1992 • 39 citations

Effects of brofaremine (CGP 11 305A), a short-acting, reversible, and selective inhibitor of MAO-A on sleep, nocturnal penile tumescence and nocturnal hormonal secretion in three healthy volunteers

1987 • 39 citations

Effect of Chronic Phenelzine Treatment on REM Sleep Report of Three Patients

2001 • 33 citations

Phase-locking of spontaneous and elicited ponto–geniculo–occipital waves is associated with acceleration of hippocampal theta waves during rapid eye movement sleep in cats

2002 • 32 citations

Effects of Long-Term Treatment with the MAO-A Inhibitor Moclobemide on Sleep EEG and Nocturnal Hormonal Secretion in Normal Men

1994 • 31 citations

Effect Of Rapid Eye Movement (dreaming) Sleep Deprivation On Retention Of Avoidance Learning In Rats.

1969 • 27 citations

Effect of moclobemide on the psychophysiology of sleep/wake cycles

1993 • 25 citations

Is increase in post-learning paradoxical sleep modified by cueing?

1987 • 23 citations

Spatially rearranged vision and REM sleep: a lack of effect.

1978 • 21 citations

The tonic aspects of human REM sleep during long-term intensive verbal learning

1977 • 19 citations

Sentence Memory and Sleep: A Pilot Study

1979 • 17 citations

Lifetime monoamine oxidase inhibition and sleep

1982 • 15 citations

Elicited ponto‐geniculo‐occipital waves by auditory stimuli are synchronized with hippocampal θ‐waves

2002 • 12 citations

Interaction between learning and paradoxical sleep in cats

1987 • 11 citations

Electrical activity of the toad telencephalon during tonic immobility (animal hypnosis).

1988 • 11 citations