Slow wave sleep and accelerated forgetting
Atherton K, Nobre A, Lazar A, Wulff K, Whittaker R, Dhawan V, Lazar Z, Zeman A, Butler C. Slow wave sleep and accelerated forgetting. Cortex 2016, 84: 80-89. PMID: 27710778, PMCID: PMC5084685, DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.08.013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAccelerated long-term forgettingSlow wave sleepMemory benefitsAmount of slow wave sleepWord pair association taskLong-term forgettingBenefits of sleepDeclarative memoryAccelerated forgettingMemory consolidationAssociation taskMemory retentionBrain activityHealthy control groupHealthy participantsMemoryHealthy individualsElectrographic epileptiform activitySleepForgettingEpileptiform activityIndividualsSleep stagesControl groupHealthy people