睡眠和记忆压抑对情绪记忆处理的可分离效应

The ability to retrieve memories of adverse events without fully reinstating their associated emotional charge is a hallmark of an adaptive memory system. This decoupling of emotional reactivity from episodic memory has been linked to two key processes: memory suppression during wakefulness and memory consolidation during sleep. Yet, the combined influences of wakeful suppression and sleep-associated memory processing on emotional affect during retrieval are unknown. We sought to address this gap in the current study. Participants learned to associate images of faces with emotionally negative