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Practice with Sleep Makes Perfect

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Sleep and synaptic homeostasis: a hypothesis

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The Role of Sleep in Learning and Memory

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The impact of sleep deprivation on decision making: A review.

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Restoration of brain energy metabolism as the function of sleep

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Are Spatial Memories Strengthened in the Human Hippocampus during Slow Wave Sleep?

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Reactivation of Hippocampal Cell Assemblies: Effects of Behavioral State, Experience, and EEG Dynamics

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Visual discrimination learning requires sleep after training

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Neuronal Plasticity in Thalamocortical Networks during Sleep and Waking Oscillations

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The REM Sleep-Memory Consolidation Hypothesis

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

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The golem: what everyone should know about science

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Sleep Enhances Plasticity in the Developing Visual Cortex

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Sleep states and memory processes

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Song Replay During Sleep and Computational Rules for Sensorimotor Vocal Learning

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Sleep Deprivation Selectively Impairs Memory Consolidation for Contextual Fear Conditioning

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Awareness Modifies the Skill-Learning Benefits of Sleep

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Coordinated Reactivation of Distributed Memory Traces in Primate Neocortex

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Effects of early and late nocturnal sleep on priming and spatial memory

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Sleep states and learning: A review of the animal literature

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Visual Deprivation Reactivates Rapid Ocular Dominance Plasticity in Adult Visual Cortex

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Brain Gene Expression During REM Sleep Depends on Prior Waking Experience

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The case against memory consolidation in REM sleep

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Sleep Restriction Suppresses Neurogenesis Induced by Hippocampus-Dependent Learning

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

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Sleep deprivation impairs spatial memory and decreases extracellular signal-regulated kinase phosphorylation in the hippocampus

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

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Posttraining increases in REM sleep intensity implicate REM sleep in memory processing and provide a biological marker of learning potential

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The Mystery of Sleep Function: Current Perspectives and Future Directions

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REM sleep deprivation-induced deficits in the latency-to-peak induction and maintenance of long-term potentiation within the CA1 region of the hippocampus

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

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Sleep and Memory: The Ongoing Debate

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Time for the Sleep Community to Take a Critical Look at the Purported Role of Sleep in Memory Processing

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Sleep-Dependent Plasticity Requires Cortical Activity

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Corticosteroid receptor mediated effects on mood in humans

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Neural plasticity and the brain renin–angiotensin system

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Rapid eye movement sleep deprivation in kittens amplifies LGN cell-size disparity induced by monocular deprivation

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A Molecular Window on Sleep: Changes in Gene Expression between Sleep and Wakefulness

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Eliminating the adrenal stress response does not affect sleep deprivation-induced acquisition deficits in the water maze

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REM sleep deprivation attenuates actin-binding protein cortactin: A link between sleep and hippocampal plasticity

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Evaluation of extracranial blood flow in Parkinson disease

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