Sleep Loss Produces False Memories

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 3; no. 10; p. e3512
• Main Authors: Diekelmann, Susanne, Landolt, Hans-Peter, Lahl, Olaf, Born, Jan, Wagner, Ullrich
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 23.10.2008; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adenosine; Adolescent; Adult; Caffeine; Caffeine - pharmacology; Coding; Consolidation; Evaluation; Female; Humans; Hydrocortisone - analysis; Hydrocortisone - metabolism; Learning; Learning - drug effects; Learning - physiology; Lists; Male; Medical research; Memory; Memory Disorders - etiology; Mental Recall - drug effects; Mental Recall - physiology; Neurophysiology; Neuroscience/Behavioral Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Experimental Psychology; Neuroscience/Psychology; Representations; Retrieval; Saliva - chemistry; Sleep; Sleep deprivation; Sleep Deprivation - physiopathology; Sleep Deprivation - psychology; Stress, Psychological - metabolism; Stress, Psychological - physiopathology; Task forces; Task Performance and Analysis; Young Adult; Germany

People sometimes claim with high confidence to remember events that in fact never happened, typically due to strong semantic associations with actually encoded events. Sleep is known to provide optimal neurobiological conditions for consolidation of memories for long-term storage, whereas sleep depr...