The impact of sleep on true and false memory across long delays

• Published in: Neurobiology of learning and memory Vol. 137; pp. 123 - 133
• Main Authors: Pardilla-Delgado, Enmanuelle, Payne, Jessica D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.01.2017; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Episodic memory; False memory; Gist; Semantic memory; Sleep; Slow-wave sleep; Gist; Semantic memory; Sleep; Slow-wave sleep; False memory; Episodic memory

•True and false memory performance in the DRM task was probed 24 or 48h after encoding.•Subjects who slept soon after encoding had better true memory.•To a lesser extent, sleep also increased false memory.•Slow-wave sleep was negatively correlated with false recognition.•SWS may be detrimental for g...