Table 1.

Studies investigating the memory effects of auditory stimulation in sleep, organised by memory domain and task

Memory domain	Task
Declarative memory	Paired associates learning: related word pairs [13, 14, 16, 17, 19••, 22, 25, 29, 30••, 33, 36•]
	Paired associated learning: unrelated word pairs [19••, 23•, 31, 32]
	Paired associates learning: face-name associations [22]
	Picture recognition task (encoding after stimulation) [24, 30••]
	Spatial navigation task [19••]
Motor skills	Finger tapping [22, 30••, 36•]
	Serial reaction time task [23•]
Emotional memory	Picture recognition [22, 37]
Working memory	N-back task [23•]