Sleep and learning

• Bob Stickgold, Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA

Dr. Bob Stickgold accepted the invitation on 5 February 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 5 March 2007).

This article will briefly cover: Human studies showing the role of sleep in the consolidation of human memory. animal studies will be briefly referred to as well.

Bob Stickgold, Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA

was invited by the Editor-in-Chief on 14 November 2006.

Sponsored by: Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia