Sleep And Memory Processing: A Solid Relationship (original) (raw)

The correlation between sleep and memory consolidation has recently drawn lot of attention and among these debates the link between the emotional memory and sleep, is of special note. Sleep is shown to importantly contribute to processes of memory. Sleep-dependent memory processing provides in the stabilization, enhancement, and consolidation of a wide range of memory types including declarative (explicit) and non declarative (implicit).These specific types of memory would be consolidated during sleep, associated with specific sleep stage. In reviewed studies, a broad range of perceptual and motor procedural tasks were shown to be improved in performance after sleep. Overnight improvement on a procedural task correlates with SWS and Sleep spindles are reported to be associated with improvement of motor sequence task. Sleep enhances declarative memory for emotional words and pictures. Emotions can also enhance memory consolidation. In many of reports, psychiatric disorders such as de...