Selected Recent Publications
Note: student researchers' and lab coordinators' names are underlined
Hudachek, L. & Wamsley, E. J. (in press). A Meta-analysis of the Relation between Dream Content and Memory. SLEEP.
Wamsley, E. J. (2022). Constructive episodic simulation in dreams. PLOS ONE. 17(3): e0264574.
Wang, S., Baker, K. C. Culbreth, J. L., Tracy, O., Arora, M., Liu, T., Morris, S., Collins, M. B., & Wamsley, E. J. (2021). "Sleep-Dependent” Memory Consolidation?: Brief Periods of Post-Training Rest and Sleep Provide an Equivalent Benefit for Both Declarative and Procedural Memory. Learning & Memory. 28(6), 195-203.
Collins, M., Wamsley, E., Napier, H., & Ray, M. (2021). The effect of exercise on sleep architecture and memory consolidation during a daytime nap. SLEEP, (44), A16-A16).
Wamsley, E. J. & Summer, T. (2020). Spontaneous Entry into an “Offline” State during Wakefulness: A Mechanism of Memory Consolidation?. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Bailes, C., Caldwell, M., Wamsley, E. J., & Tucker, M. A. (2020). Does sleep protect memories against interference? A failure to replicate. PLoS ONE, 15(2), e0220419.
Tucker, M.A., Humiston, G.B., Summer, T., Wamsley, E.J. (2020). Comparing the Effects of Sleep and Rest on Memory Consolidation. Nature and Science of Sleep, 12, 79-91.
Humiston, G.B., Tucker, M.A., Summer, T., & Wamsley, E. J. (2019). Resting States and Memory Consolidation: A Preregistered Replication and Meta-Analysis. Sci Rep 9, 19345 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-56033-6
Wamsley, E.J. (2019). Memory Consolidation during Waking Rest. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23(3), 171-173.
Bartsch, U., Simpkin, A., Demanuele, C., Wamsley, E. J., Marston, H. & Jones, M.W. (2019). Distributed slow-wave dynamics during sleep predict memory consolidation and its impairment in schizophrenia. NPJ Schizophrenia, 5(18).
Zhang, J., & Wamsley, E. J. (2019). EEG predictors of dreaming outside of REM sleep. Psychophysiology, 56(7), e13368.
Humiston, G.B, Wamsley, EJ. Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep: A failure to replicate. PLoS ONE. 2019 Jan 25;14(1): e0211416. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211416
Humiston, G.B., Wamsley, E.J. (2018). A Brief Period of Eyes-Closed Rest Enhances Motor Skill Consolidation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 2018 Jun 5;155:1-6. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2018.06.002.
Murphy, M., Stickgold, R., Parr M.E., Callahan, C., Wamsley, E.J. (2018). Recurrence of task-related electroencephalographic activity during post-training quiet rest and sleep. Sci Rep. 8(1):5398.
Graveline, Y.M, Wamsley, E.J. The impact of sleep on novel concept learning. (2017). Neurobiol Learn Mem. 141,9-26
Brokaw, K., Tishler, W., Manceor, S., Hamilton, K., Gaulden, A., Parr, E., Wamsley, E.J. (2016). Resting state EEG correlates of memory consolidation. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 130, 17-25.
Wamsley, E.J., Hamilton, K., Graveline, Y., Manceor, S., Parr, E. (2016).Test Expectation Enhances Memory Consolidation across Both Sleep and Wake. PLoS ONE.11(10),e0165141.
Graveline, Y., Wamsley, E.J. (2015). Dreaming and waking cognition. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. 1(1):97-105.
Wamsley, E.J. (2014). Dreaming and offline memory consolidation. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 14(3):433.
Wamsley, E.J. (2013).Dreaming, waking conscious experience, and the resting brain: report of subjective experience as a tool in the cognitive neurosciences. Front Psychol. 4,637.