Jennifer E. Ashton's research while affiliated with CUNY Graduate Center and other places

Publications (4)

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Our ability to recall memories is improved when sleep follows learning, suggesting that sleep facilitates memory consolidation. A number of factors are thought to influence the impact of sleep on newly learned information, such as whether or not we rehearse that information (e.g. via restudy or retrieval practice), or the extent to which the inform...
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Our ability to recall memories is improved when sleep follows learning, suggesting that sleep facilitates memory consolidation. A number of factors are thought to influence the impact of sleep on newly learned information, such as whether or not we rehearse that information (e.g. via restudy or retrieval practice), or the extent to which the inform...
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Overnight consolidation processes are thought to operate in a selective manner, such that important (i.e. future-relevant) memories are strengthened ahead of irrelevant information. Using an online protocol, we sought to replicate the seminal finding that the memory benefits of sleep are enhanced when people expect a future test [Wilhelm et al., 20...
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Overnight consolidation processes are thought to operate in a selective manner, such that important (i.e. future-relevant) memories are strengthened ahead of irrelevant information. Using an online protocol, we sought to replicate the seminal finding that the memory benefits of sleep are enhanced when people expect a future test (Wilhelm et al., 20...

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... We used the "classic" 12-h sleep versus wake design, motivated on the basis that this design elicits sleep effects in an online setting, giving us increased confidence that the effect of sleep could be successfully studied here (Ashton and Cairney 2021;Ashton et al. 2022;Denis et al. 2022). However, this design has two limitations that should be addressed in future research. ...
... We used the "classic" 12-h sleep versus wake design, motivated on the basis that this design elicits sleep effects in an online setting, giving us increased confidence that the effect of sleep could be successfully studied here (Ashton and Cairney 2021;Ashton et al. 2022;Denis et al. 2022). However, this design has two limitations that should be addressed in future research. ...