Selected Publications
Note: student researchers' names are underlined
Bailes, C., Caldwell, M., Wamsley, E. J., & Tucker, M. A. (2020). Does sleep protect memories against interference? A failure to replicate. PLoS ONE.
Tucker, M.A., Humiston, G.B., Summer, T., Wamsley, E. (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 EJ. (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 GB, 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 GB, Wamsley EJ. (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 ME, Callahan C, Wamsley EJ. Recurrence of task-related electroencephalographic activity during post-training quiet rest and sleep. Sci Rep. 2018 Mar 29;8(1):5398. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23590-1. PubMed PMID: 29599462
Graveline YM, Wamsley EJ. The impact of sleep on novel concept learning. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2017 Mar 11;141:19-26. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.03.008. PubMed PMID: 28288833
Brokaw K, Tishler W, Manceor S, Hamilton K, Gaulden A, Parr E, Wamsley EJ. Resting state EEG correlates of memory consolidation. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2016 Apr; 130:17-25. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.01.008. PubMed PMID: 26802698.
Wamsley EJ, Hamilton K, Graveline Y, Manceor S, Parr E. Test Expectation Enhances Memory Consolidation across Both Sleep and Wake. PLoS ONE. 2016 Oct 19;11(10):e0165141. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165141. PubMed PMID: 27760193; PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC5070851.
Payne JD, Kensinger EA, Wamsley EJ, Spreng RN, Alger SE, Gibler K, Schacter DL, Stickgold R. Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes. Emotion. 2015 Apr;15(2):176-86. doi: 10.1037/a0038683. PubMed PMID: 25706830.
Graveline Y, Wamsley EJ. Dreaming and waking cognition. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. 2015 Jan; 1(1):97-105. doi: 10.1037/tps0000018.
Manoach DS, Demanuele C, Wamsley EJ, Vangel M, Montrose DM, Miewald J, Kupfer D, Buysse D, Stickgold R, Keshavan MS. Sleep spindle deficits in antipsychotic-naïve early course schizophrenia and in non-psychotic first-degree relatives. Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Oct 7;8:762. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00762. PubMed PMID: 25339881;
PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC4188028.
PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC4188028.
Stamm AW, Nguyen ND, Seicol BJ, Fagan A, Oh A, Drumm M, Lundt M, Stickgold R, Wamsley EJ. Negative reinforcement impairs overnight memory consolidation. Learn Mem. 2014 Oct 15; 21(11):591-6. doi: 10.1101/lm.035196.114. PubMed PMID: 25320351; PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC4201816.
Wamsley EJ. Dreaming and offline memory consolidation. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 2014 Mar; 14(3):433. doi: 10.1007/s11910-013-0433-5. PubMed PMID: 24477388; PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC4704085.
Wamsley EJ, Donjacour CEHM, Scammell TE, Lammers GJ, Stickgold R. Delusional Confusion of Dreaming and Reality in Narcolepsy. Sleep. 2014 Feb 1; 37(2):419-22. DOI: 10.5665/sleep.3428. PubMed PMID: 24501437; PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC3900627.
Mednick SC, McDevitt EA, Walsh JK, Wamsley EJ, Paulus M, Kanady JC, Drummond SP. The critical role of sleep spindles in hippocampal-dependent memory: a pharmacology study. J Neurosci. 2013 Mar 6;33(10):4494-504. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3127-12.2013. PubMed PMID: 23467365; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3744388.
Wamsley EJ. Dreaming, waking conscious experience, and the resting brain: report of subjective experience as a tool in the cognitive neurosciences. Front Psychol. 2013 Sep 23;4:637. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00637. PubMed PMID: 24065940; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3779833.
Wamsley EJ, Shinn AK, Tucker MA, Ono KE, McKinley SK, Ely AV, Goff DC, Stickgold R, Manoach DS. The effects of eszopiclone on sleep spindles and memory consolidation in schizophrenia: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Sleep. 2013 Sep 1;36(9):1369-76. doi: 10.5665/sleep.2968. PubMed PMID: 23997371; PubMed
Central PMCID: PMC3738047.
Central PMCID: PMC3738047.
Nguyen ND, Tucker MA, Stickgold R, Wamsley EJ. Overnight Sleep Enhances Hippocampus-Dependent Aspects of Spatial Memory. Sleep. 2013 Jul 1;36(7):1051-1057. PubMed PMID: 23814342; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3669068.
Payne JD, Tucker MA, Ellenbogen JM, Wamsley EJ, Walker MP, Schacter DL, Stickgold R. Memory for semantically related and unrelated declarative information: the benefit of sleep, the cost of wake. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33079. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033079. Epub 2012 Mar 22. PubMed PMID: 22457736; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3310860.
Wamsley EJ, Tucker MA, Shinn AK, Ono KE, McKinley SK, Ely AV, Goff DC, Stickgold R, Manoach DS. Reduced sleep spindles and spindle coherence in schizophrenia: mechanisms of impaired memory consolidation? Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Jan 15;71(2):154-61. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.08.008. Epub 2011 Oct 2. PubMed PMID: 21967958; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3561714.
Wamsley EJ, Stickgold R. Memory, Sleep and Dreaming: Experiencing
Consolidation. Sleep Med Clin. 2011 Mar 1;6(1):97-108. PubMed PMID: 21516215; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3079906.
Consolidation. Sleep Med Clin. 2011 Mar 1;6(1):97-108. PubMed PMID: 21516215; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3079906.
Wamsley EJ, Stickgold R. Dreaming and offline memory processing. Curr Biol. 2010 Dec 7;20(23):R1010-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.045. PubMed PMID: 21145013; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3557787.
Wamsley EJ, Tucker MA, Payne JD, Stickgold R. A brief nap is beneficial for human route-learning: The role of navigation experience and EEG spectral power.Learn Mem. 2010 Jun 25;17(7):332-6. doi: 10.1101/lm.1828310. Print 2010 Jul. PubMed PMID: 20581255; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2904102.
Wamsley EJ, Tucker M, Payne JD, Benavides JA, Stickgold R. Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Curr Biol. 2010 May 11;20(9):850-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.027. Epub 2010 Apr 22. PubMed PMID: 20417102; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2869395.
Wamsley EJ, Perry K, Djonlagic I, Reaven LB, Stickgold R. Cognitive replay of visuomotor learning at sleep onset: temporal dynamics and relationship to task performance. Sleep. 2010 Jan;33(1):59-68. PubMed PMID: 20120621; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2802248.
Wamsley EJ, Antrobus JS. The expression of trace conditioning during non-REM sleep and its relation to subjective experience. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2009 Oct;92(3):283-91. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.02.012. Epub 2009 Feb 28. PubMed PMID: 19254775.
