Table of Contents

Howard Eichenbaum: Foreword
Pierre Maquet, Carlyle Smith, and Robert Stickgold: Introduction
Section 1: Human Behaviour
1: Robert Stickgold: Memory, cognition, and dreams
2: Robert Stickgold: Human studies of sleep and off-line memory reprocessing
3: Jan Born and Steffen Gais: Roles of early and late nocturnal sleep for the consolidation of human memories
4: Rebecca Nader and Carlyle Smith: A role for stage 2 sleep in memory processing
Section 2: Animal Behaviour
5: Elizabeth Hennevin: Expression and modulation of memory traces during paradoxical sleep
6: Carlyle Smith: The REM sleep window and memory processing
7: Subimal Datta and Elissa H. Patterson: Activation of phasic pontine wave (P-wave): a mechanism of learning and memory processing
8: Antonio Giuditta, Paola Montagnese, Stefania Piscopo, and Stefania Vescia: The role of sleep in memory processing: the sequential hypothesis
Section 3: Sleep and Neural Development
9: Majid Mirmiran and Ronald L Ariagno: Role of REM sleep in brain development and plasticity
10: Marcus G Frank and Michael P Stryker: The role of sleep in the development of central visual pathways
Section 4: Systems level
11: Philippe Peigneux, S Laureys, Axel Cleeremans, and Pierre Maquet: Cerebral correlates of memory consolidation during human sleep: contribution of functional neuroimaging
12: Bruce McNaughton, CA Barnes, FP Battaglia, MR Bower, SL Cowen, AD Ekstrom, JL Gerrard, KL Hoffman, Y Karten, P Lipa, CMA Pennartz, and GR Sutherland: Off-line reprocessing of recent memory and its role in memory consolidation: a progress report
13: Gyorgy Buzsaki, Daniel Carpi, Jozsef Csicsvari, George Dragoi, Kenneth Harris, Darrell Henze, and Hajime Hirase: Maintenance and modification of firing rates and sequences in the hippocampus: does sleep play a role?
14: Mircea Steriade and Igor Timofeev: Neuronal plasticity during sleep oscillations in corticothalamic systems
Section 5: Cellular level
15: Kevin M Hellman and Ted Abel: Molecular mechanisms of memory consolidation
16: Constantine Pavlides and Sidarta Ribeiro: Recent evidence of memory processing in sleep
17: James M Krueger, Ferenc Obal Jr., Joseph W Harding, John W Wright, and Lynn Churchill: Sleep modulation of the expression of plasticity markers

Reviews

an essential addition to the shelves of any sleep laboratory, and a useful one for any concerned with memory. JNNP This is an excellent new book covering the role of sleep in learning and memory. Written and edited by an outstanding and internationally recognized team of researchers in the field, this book is a valuable contribution to the cognitive neuroscience of sleep and learning ... I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this fascinating area of research. Doody's Journal