Sara Mednick
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- PhD Psychology University of California, San Diego
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sara C. Mednick is a sleep researcher at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the relationship between napping and performance. She is the author of several papers and a mass market book, Take a Nap! Change Your Life. She graduated with her PhD in psychology from Harvard University studying under Ken Nakayama and Robert Stickgold.
Sara Mednick's Published Works
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Published Works
- Sleep-dependent learning: a nap is as good as a night (2003) (576)
- REM, not incubation, improves creativity by priming associative networks (2009) (447)
- The neural basis of the psychomotor vigilance task. (2005) (437)
- The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration (2002) (315)
- The Critical Role of Sleep Spindles in Hippocampal-Dependent Memory: A Pharmacology Study (2013) (245)
- An opportunistic theory of cellular and systems consolidation (2011) (207)
- Personality and Healthy Sleep: The Importance of Conscientiousness and Neuroticism (2014) (151)
- Direct comparison of two actigraphy devices with polysomnographically recorded naps in healthy young adults (2013) (148)
- The Spread of Sleep Loss Influences Drug Use in Adolescent Social Networks (2010) (146)
- Synaptic clustering within dendrites: An emerging theory of memory formation (2015) (144)
- Nighttime temperature and human sleep loss in a changing climate (2017) (140)
- Human hippocampal replay during rest prioritizes weakly learned information and predicts memory performance (2017) (125)
- Comparing the benefits of caffeine, naps and placebo on verbal, motor and perceptual memory (2008) (120)
- Coupling of Thalamocortical Sleep Oscillations Are Important for Memory Consolidation in Humans (2015) (107)
- Pharmacologically Increasing Sleep Spindles Enhances Recognition for Negative and High-arousal Memories (2013) (103)
- Actigraphic assessment of a polysomnographic‐recorded nap: a validation study (2011) (90)
- The Road Not Taken (2012) (87)
- The time course and specificity of perceptual deterioration. (2005) (83)
- REM sleep rescues learning from interference (2015) (71)
- Sleep and rest facilitate implicit memory in a visual search task (2009) (68)
- The role of sleep and practice in implicit and explicit motor learning (2010) (56)
- Sleep Benefits Memory for Semantic Category Structure While Preserving Exemplar-Specific Information (2017) (51)
- Autonomic activity during sleep predicts memory consolidation in humans (2016) (47)
- The effect of nap frequency on daytime sleep architecture (2012) (45)
- Individual differences in compliance and agreement for sleep logs and wrist actigraphy: A longitudinal study of naturalistic sleep in healthy adults (2018) (39)
- Free-living cross-comparison of two wearable monitors for sleep and physical activity in healthy young adults (2016) (38)
- Childhood laterality and adult schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a prospective investigation (2005) (38)
- Heart rate variability during daytime naps in healthy adults: Autonomic profile and short-term reliability. (2016) (36)
- Quantifying sleep architecture dynamics and individual differences using big data and Bayesian networks (2018) (35)
- Closed-Loop Targeted Memory Reactivation during Sleep Improves Spatial Navigation (2018) (34)
- Same-Sex Sexual Attraction Does Not Spread in Adolescent Social Networks (2013) (34)
- The Effect of Zolpidem on Memory Consolidation Over a Night of Sleep. (2020) (33)
- The effect of sex and menstrual phase on memory formation during a nap (2017) (33)
- Coupling of autonomic and central events during sleep benefits declarative memory consolidation (2017) (32)
- The impact of frequent napping and nap practice on sleep-dependent memory in humans (2018) (29)
- To Nap, Perchance to DREAM: A Factor Analysis of College Students’ Self-Reported Reasons for Napping (2018) (28)
- Sex differences in sleep-dependent perceptual learning (2014) (27)
- Automatic detection of rapid eye movements (REMs): A machine learning approach (2016) (26)
- Midday napping in children: Associations between nap frequency and duration across cognitive, positive psychological well-being, behavioral, and metabolic health outcomes. (2019) (26)
- Stimulating the sleeping brain: Current approaches to modulating memory-related sleep physiology (2019) (25)
- Nocturnal Continuous Glucose and Sleep Stage Data in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes in Real-World Conditions (2013) (25)
- Does working memory improvement benefit from sleep in older adults? (2019) (24)
- Perceptual Deterioration is Reflected in the Neural Response: Fmri Study of Nappers and Non-Nappers (2008) (23)
- Perceptual learning induces changes in early and late visual evoked potentials (2017) (23)
- Sleep-dependent learning and practice-dependent deterioration in an orientation discrimination task. (2008) (21)
- Impact of sex steroids and reproductive stage on sleep-dependent memory consolidation in women (2019) (20)
- Sleep after practice reduces the attentional blink (2015) (19)
- Spatio-temporal structure of sleep slow oscillations on the electrode manifold and its relation to spindles (2018) (17)
- Validation of an Automated Wireless System for Sleep Monitoring During Daytime Naps (2015) (17)
- The benefit of offline sleep and wake for novel object recognition (2014) (16)
- The effect of narrowband 500nm light on daytime sleep in humans (2011) (16)
- Massive online data annotation, crowdsourcing to generate high quality sleep spindle annotations from EEG data (2020) (15)
- Short Duration Repetitive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation During Sleep Enhances Declarative Memory of Facts (2019) (13)
- New directions in sleep and memory research: the role of autonomic activity (2020) (13)
- Comparing Models of Sleep-dependent Memory Consolidation (2010) (12)
- Autonomic activity during a daytime nap facilitates working memory improvement (2020) (11)
- Autonomic/central coupling benefits working memory in healthy young adults (2020) (11)
- Comparing the cardiac autonomic activity profile of daytime naps and nighttime sleep (2018) (11)
- Timing between Cortical Slow Oscillations and Heart Rate Bursts during Sleep Predicts Temporal Processing Speed, but Not Offline Consolidation (2019) (9)
- Age‐related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap (2020) (9)
- The Role of Sleep Spindles in Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation (2017) (8)
- Human Memories Can Be Linked by Temporal Proximity (2019) (8)
- Napping helps preschoolers learn (2013) (7)
- Psychostimulants may block long-term memory formation via degraded sleep in healthy adults (2020) (6)
- The impact of psychostimulants on sustained attention over a 24-h period (2019) (6)
- Slow oscillations promote long-range effective communication: The key for memory consolidation in a broken-down network (2022) (6)
- Understanding the roles of central and autonomic activity during sleep in the improvement of working memory and episodic memory (2022) (4)
- The MODA sleep spindle dataset: A large, open, high quality dataset of annotated sleep spindles (2016) (4)
- Progressive muscle relaxation increases slow‐wave sleep during a daytime nap (2022) (4)
- The role of sleep for episodic memory consolidation: Stabilizing or rescuing? (2022) (3)
- Morning stimulant administration reduces sleep and overnight working memory improvement (2019) (3)
- Sleep rescues perceptual learning from interference. (2015) (3)
- Zolpidem Maintains Memories for Negative Emotions Across a Night of Sleep (2021) (3)
- The role of sleep in consolidating semantic knowledge (2013) (2)
- Corrigendum to “Sleep and rest facilitate implicit memory in a visual search task” [Vision Res. 49 (21) (2009) 2557–2565] (2010) (2)
- Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep (2021) (2)
- MODA Annotation Platform (2019) (2)
- Individual differences in sleep-dependent perceptual learning: Habitual vs. non-habitual nappers (2014) (1)
- Tracking Sleep, Temperature, Heart Rate, and Daily Symptoms Across the Menstrual Cycle with the Oura Ring in Healthy Women (2022) (1)
- Slow oscillation density and amplitude decrease across development in pediatric Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy. (2020) (1)
- REM sleep prevents interference in the texture discrimination task (2010) (1)
- The benefit of offline sleep and wake for novel object recognition (2014) (1)
- Hippocampal-dependent implicit visual memory improves with practice, not sleep (2010) (1)
- The importance of the rapid eye movement sleep stage for creativity and for creative problem solving (2014) (1)
- Response to the letter to the editor from Dr. Kawada, “Comparison of two accelerometers for monitoring sleep: Agreement and validity” (2016) (1)
- Perceptual deterioration predicts performance today (2010) (1)
- Sleep facilitates spatial memory but not navigation using the Minecraft Memory and Navigation task (2022) (1)
- The space-time profiles of sleep spindles and their coordination with slow oscillations on the electrode manifold (2022) (1)
- Transient cholinergic enhancement does not significantly affect either the magnitude or selectivity of perceptual learning of visual texture discrimination (2020) (1)
- Perceptual deterioration is specific to background and target orientation. (2004) (1)
- Same-Sex Sexual Attraction Does Not Spread in Adolescent Social Networks (2013) (1)
- A daytime nap reduces the attentional blink (2013) (1)
- 0093 Topographical Analysis of Sleep Spindles and Their Coordination with Slow Oscillations (2020) (1)
- The effect of interference, offline sleep, and wake on spatial statistical learning (2022) (0)
- 0121 Sleep facilitates memory, but not navigation across the pubertal transition in the novel Minecraft Memory and Navigation Task (2022) (0)
- Sleep-dependent perceptual learning with and without distractors (2010) (0)
- 0124 Dextroamphetamine biases the brain towards enhanced spatial selective attention compared over working memory (2022) (0)
- 0094 The Effect of Zolpidem on Sleep-Dependent Declarative Memory Consolidation (2020) (0)
- 055 Novel sleep-dependent spatial memory and navigation task using Minecraft (2021) (0)
- Autonomic central coupling during daytime sleep differs between older and younger people (2022) (0)
- 0063 Age Related Changes in Central Autonomic Couplings During Sleep (2020) (0)
- The differing effects of REM and non-REM sleep on performance in visual statistical learning (2012) (0)
- Age-related differences in Autonomic/Central Coupling during a Daytime Nap (2020) (0)
- The Role of Working Memory in Age-Related Emotional Memory Bias (2022) (0)
- 259 Tracking naturalistic sleep over the menstrual cycle with a wearable in healthy young women (2021) (0)
- Parasympathetic activity during sleep, but not wake, facilitates working memory improvement: a comparison of young and older adults (2019) (0)
- 0111 Effects of Sleep on Working Memory (2022) (0)
- 0114 Morning Stimulant Administration Reduces Sleep and Overnight Working Memory Improvement (2020) (0)
- 0119 The Role of Aging and Working Memory in Emotional-Long Term Memory Formation (2020) (0)
- 0203 THE EFFECT OF EXPERIMENTALLY MANIPULATING NAP FREQUENCY ON NIGHTTIME SLEEP QUALITY: AN ACTIGRAPHY STUDY (2017) (0)
- 0209 OPTIMIZING SLEEP-RELATED MEMORY PROCESSES USING CLOSED-LOOP AUDITORY STIMULATION (2017) (0)
- Pharmacologically enhanced naps modulate perceptual learning and verbal memory (2012) (0)
- 182 Neighborhood Safety, Stress, and Sleep: Ethnic Differences (2021) (0)
- The neural correlates of perceptual learning and deterioration: a role for attention? (2005) (0)
- 0235 FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT MODULATION OF SLEEP SPINDLES BY SLOW OSCILLATIONS AND ITS RELATION TO DECLARATIVE MEMORY IN HUMANS (2017) (0)
- 0096 Future-Relevant Information is Enhanced After Sleep Despite Emotional Salience of Stimuli (2020) (0)
- The effects of cholinergic enhancement and consolidation duration on perceptual learning of texture discrimination (2017) (0)
- 0215 CARDIAC ACTIVITY IN SLOW WAVE SLEEP PREDICTS MEMORY CONSOLIDATION (2017) (0)
- 0225 SLEEP BENEFITS MEMORY FOR SEMANTIC CATEGORY STRUCTURE WHILE PRESERVING INDIVIDUAL EXEMPLARS (2017) (0)
- The impact of frequent napping and nap practice on sleep-dependent memory in humans (2018) (0)
- 0081 Parasympathetic Activity During Sleep, But Not Wake, Facilitates Working Memory Improvement: A Comparison Of Young And Older Adults (2019) (0)
- Perceptual learning after a nap: The Mini-Me of Sleep (2010) (0)
- Does working memory improve with sleep or wake in older adults? (2019) (0)
- Coupling of autonomic and central events during sleep boosts working memory in healthy young adults (2019) (0)
- Men need a nap to show perceptual learning of motion direction discrimination, but women do not. (2012) (0)
- Central Autonomic Couplings During Sleep Can Predict Sleep-Induced Working Memory Improvement (2018) (0)
- 058 The interactions of Sleep, Heart Rate Variability and Aging on an Emotional Directed Forgetting Memory Task (2021) (0)
- 067 Causal Communication Across the Electrode Manifold During Slow Oscillations (2021) (0)
- 0252 Influence of Sleep on Negative Social Judgment (2020) (0)
- Consolidation of associative face memory during sleep is related to spatial position (2013) (0)
- 0112 Classification of reconstructed depth profiles shows Global and non-Global slow oscillations differentiate in the hippocampus and thalamus (2022) (0)
- 030 The sleeping brain switches from frontal-subcortical working memory to hippocampal episodic memory processing during NREM sleep (2021) (0)
- 0110 Fluctuations Across the Menstrual Cycle in Cardiac Autonomic Activity During Sleep and Wake May Affect Memory Consolidation (2020) (0)
- Review for "Slow oscillation‐spindle coupling is negatively associated with emotional memory formation following stress" (2020) (0)
- 0191 Characteristics of sleep spindles across development in males with Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy Disorder (2022) (0)
- 042 A look at sex differences on sleep’s impact on working memory improvement (2021) (0)
- Sleep physiology across development in duchenne muscular dystrophy disorder (2019) (0)
- Sleep after practice reduces the attentional blink (2015) (0)
- 079 Sleep Quality Prediction During the Menstrual Cycle based on Daily Sleep Diary Reports (2021) (0)
- Timing between cortical slow oscillations and heart rate bursts during sleep predicts perceptual speed, but not offline consolidation (2018) (0)
- Human hippocampal replay during rest prioritizes weakly learned information and predicts memory performance (2018) (0)
- Sleep Benefits Memory for Semantic Category Structure While Preserving Exemplar-Specific Information (2017) (0)
- Novel object learning depends on rapid eye movement sleep (2011) (0)
- A multi-level interpretable sleep stage scoring system by infusing experts' knowledge into a deep network architecture (2022) (0)
- 0120 Menstrual Cycle-Related Changes in Sleep-Dependent Emotional Memory Consolidation (2022) (0)
- Title : Timing between cortical slow oscillations and heart rate bursts during sleep predicts perceptual speed , but not offline consolidation Abbreviated title : Cortical / Cardiac Timing Predicts Perceptual Processing Speed (2018) (0)
- Decision letter: Sleep spindles mediate hippocampal-neocortical coupling during long-duration ripples (2020) (0)
- Separating specific from general learning in a napping paradigm on Multiple Object Tracking and Rotary Pursuit tasks (2010) (0)
- utomatic detection of rapid eye movements ( REMs ) : machine learning approach enjamin (2016) (0)
- Global and non-Global slow oscillations differentiate in their depth profiles (2022) (0)
- 0115 The Effect of Zolpidem on Sleep Dependent Emotional Memory Consolidation (2020) (0)
- Napping necessary for within-day perceptual learning (2010) (0)
- Massive online data annotation, crowdsourcing to generate high quality sleep spindle annotations from EEG data (2020) (0)
- 161 Sleep, Emotion, and Physical Activity in Older Adults Who Engage in Resonant Breathing Biofeedback (2021) (0)
- 183 Influence of Feelings of Neighborhood Safety on Anxiety and Sleep (2021) (0)
- The effects of naps on the magnitude and specificity of perceptual learning of motion direction discrimination (2011) (0)
- Editorial Board (2011) (0)
- Title Coupling of thalamocortical sleep oscillations are important for memory consolidation in humans Permalink (2015) (0)
- Comparing the benefits of a nap, caffeine,modafinil and placebo on visual, visuospatial, motor and declarative memory (2010) (0)
- The beauty of sleep (2019) (0)
- 093 Sleep and Mood Across the Menstrual Cycle in Young Women (2021) (0)
- 0152 A functional role for global slow oscillations in major depressive disorder with hypersomnia (2022) (0)
- Autonomic/Central Coupling Boosts Working Memory in Healthy Young Adults (2020) (0)
- 051 Is Working Memory Associated with Ag- related Emotional Memory Bias? (2021) (0)
- Short-duration repetitive transcranial electrical stimulation during a daytime nap improves memory consolidation (2019) (0)
- Modulating acetylcholine during consolidation of sleep-dependent perceptual learning (2016) (0)
- Slow oscillations provide the spatio-temporal framework for long-range neural communication during sleep (2021) (0)
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