Memory updating in dreams
SLEEP Advances 2024 Erin J. Wamsley, Tempest Trost, Matthew A. Tucker 2 citations
Robert Stickgold's research was among the earliest to rigorously quantify the effect of learning on dream content. As a result, we learned that dreaming is influenced by the activation of newly formed memory traces in the sleeping brain. Exactly how this happens is an ongoing area of investigation. Here, we test the hypothesis that participants are especially likely to dream of recent...