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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2010 Feb 1;1(4):491–500. doi: 10.1002/wcs.52

Figure 5. The influence of sleep on emotional memory.

Figure 5

Change in recognition rate of emotional or neutral images is demonstrated 12 hours from initial encoding compared to 30 minutes after encoding. Left: Neutral objects (striped bars) and their neutral backgrounds (solid bars) both show 6-11% deterioration across the 12 hr interval, whether across a period of daytime wake or across a night with sleep; Right: The same pattern is seen for emotional objects (striped bars) and neutral backgrounds (solid bars), except that emotional objects are recognized significantly better after a night of sleep than either objects or backgrounds in any other condition.