Researchers trace how different sleep stages may fine-tune what we remember, trading specifics for more general knowledge.

This study examines how sleep influences memory, revealing the interplay between emotional cues and intentional recall in ...

Scientists instructed people to remember or forget words and then checked what words they retained in their memory after a 12 ...

Psychologists call it “offline waking rest.” In its purest form, offline waking rest can be closing your eyes and zoning out ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

Sleep isn’t one-size-fits-all. Researchers identified five sleep types, each linked to unique brain patterns, mood changes, ...

Essentially, sleep is divided into two stages – non-rapid eye movement (non-REM, which the researchers refer to as NREM) sleep and REM sleep – and it's widely understood both play distinct roles in ...

Researchers from Concordia University in Montreal identified five distinct sleep profiles that may help explain why some ...

Mayo Clinic researchers report that chronic insomnia in older adults leads to a 40% higher dementia risk and accelerated ...

Experiment conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley Feb. 1, 2013 — -- An experiment at the University of California, Berkeley, found that seniors enjoy less quality ...