Patterns of regional brain activation associated with different forms of motor learning.

TL;DR: This paper reviews a novel hypothesis about the functions of slow wave sleep-the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis, which accounts for a large number of experimental facts, makes several specific predictions, and has implications for both sleep and mood disorders.

TL;DR: Converging evidence, from the molecular to the phenomenological, leaves little doubt that offline memory reprocessing during sleep is an important component of how the authors' memories are formed and ultimately shaped.

TL;DR: It is shown that sleep homeostasis indeed has a local component, which can be triggered by a learning task involving specific brain regions, and that the local increase in SWA after learning correlates with improved performance of the task after sleep.

TL;DR: Findings support the existence of a consolidation mechanism, susceptible to anodal tDCS, which contributes to offline effects but not to online effects or long-term retention, and may hold promise for the rehabilitation of brain injury.

TL;DR: The results provide clear evidence that episodic memory involves a network of specific prefrontal and posterior structures which can be fractionated into different component processes.

TL;DR: The results indicate that regions in both hemispheres underlie human long-term memory encoding, and these regions can be engaged differentially according to the nature of the material being encoded.

TL;DR: The dorsal prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex were activated more when the subjects learned a new sequence than they were when subjects simply paid attention to a prelearned sequence and it was suggested that the critical feature was that the subjects were required to attend to the preparation of their responses.

TL;DR: The findings provide direct evidence for hemispheric specialization in global and local perception and indicate that temporal–parietal areas exert attentional control over the neural transformations occurring in prestriate cortex.