Rebecca L. Gómez's research while affiliated with The University of Arizona and other places

... Observations of toddlers who do or do not continue to nap habitually have supported this hypothesis. In Esterline and Gómez's (2021) study, 4-year-olds who had ceased taking habitual naps remembered new word-meaning associations regardless of whether they napped or not after training, whereas habitual nappers who remained awake between learning and testing did not show retention of the words. In Kurdziel et al.'s (2013) study, spatial memories decayed over 5 hours spent awake in 3-to 5-year-old habitual nappers but not in nonhabitual nappers. ...

... In the present study, this tended to be true for the poorest responders in the Short Recast condition, but children in the Extended Recast condition tended to stay near baseline past 10 sessions, regardless of whether they were ultimately treatment responders or not. Past analyses have also suggested that when children begin to repeat the clinician's recast, they also soon begin to use their Target form on their own (Nicholas et al., 2021). As with the children in the present study, they do not seem to improve on their morpheme use once treatment has ended, suggesting clinicians should ensure the child has full competence before discontinuing treatment (Hall & Plante, 2020). ...

... At the age of testing (between 9 and 11 months old), infants already know many highly frequent words (Johnson, 2016) and are thus used to encountering these familiar words in the speech input. Highly familiar words might function as lexical anchors in speech processing (Frost, Dunn, Christiansen, Gómez, & Monaghan, 2020;Frost, Monaghan, & Christiansen, 2019), binding infants' attention to the stimulus and motivating them to explore the signal even further. For example, 9-month-olds benefit in their word segmentation from words that overlap in rimes with highly familiar words (Altvater-Mackensen & Mani, 2013). ...

... Research with preschoolers suggests that napping and night sleep play complementary roles for consolidating information. For example, 2.5-year-olds who napped after an object categorization task were better able to generalize at test the next day than children who slept only at night, suggesting that the function of napping was to retain new information until it could be generalized during the alternating rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) cycles characterizing night sleep (Werchan et al., 2021). Similarly, napping benefitted preschoolers' procedural learning of a serial reaction time task, but not until the next day after they also had a night of sleep. ...

... In clinical psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, it is certainly useful to know that sleeping and dreaming facilitate the storage of recently acquired information as long-term memories (Born et al., 2006;Langille & Brown, 2018;Simon et al., 2020;Stickgold et al., 2001). Actually, the emotional pain that brings patients to psychotherapy is rooted in embodied and implicit memories, together with their associated a"ects. ...

... Uykunun bellekteki rolüne ilişkin alternatif bir teori, SWA'nın sinaptik güçlerin doygunluğunu önlemek için gerekli olan küresel bir sinaptik küçültmeyi desteklediğini öne sürer. Uyku sırasında meydana gelen süreçler, uzun süreli kalıcılık için yeni öğrenmenin dengelenmesine kritik olarak katkıda bulunur (14). ...

... Memory consolidation is an active process that integrates newly encoded information into long-term memory networks and is more efficient during sleep [41]. As an example, a reduction in sleep spindle density has been associated with lower memory consolidation in older adults [42][43][44]. Currently, this topic is rarely addressed in BC patients: only one study has reported a higher spindle frequency and lower slow wave amplitude in BC patients not treated with chemotherapy compared to age-matched healthy women [45]. ...

... However, when emotional memories were probed again following subsequent overnight sleep, the advantage of napping emerged: children showed superior 24-h delayed recognition of the face stimuli if they napped the previous day compared to when they stayed awake following learning (Kurdziel et al., 2018). This is in contrast to studies of neutral declarative memory in the same age group, which find sleep benefits immediately following the nap (Kurdziel et al., 2013;Spanò et al., 2018;Williams & Horst, 2014). ...

... In addition, individual differences in intrinsic hippocampal-striatal functional connectivity have been linked to affect-related diversity in physical exploration (Heller et al., 2020). Similar to extrinsic rewards, high states of curiosity and underlying mesolimbic functional connectivity increase the likelihood of encountered information to be remembered later on (Duan et al., 2020;Fandakova & Gruber, 2021;Galli et al., 2018;Gruber et al., 2014;Kang et al., 2009;Lang et al., 2022;Ligneul et al., 2018;McGillivray et al., 2015;Murphy et al., 2021;Stare et al., 2018). Several states of incentive salience have been associated with activity in the cortico-mesolimbic dopaminergic circuit (e.g., Bromberg-Martin & Hikosaka, 2009;Frank et al., 2019;Gruber et al., 2014) but it remains an open question whether dissociable intrinsic functional networks reveal the degree to which an individual benefits from different states of incentive salience. ...

... In fact, limited talker variability seems to be particularly useful for learning talker-specific information (see also Choi & Shukla, 2021). For example, when learners are presented with multiple underlying regularities (i.e., artificial speech streams), a change in talker that happens in tandem with the change in regularity helps learners separately track each set of regularity statistics, which they are unable to do when both speech streams (with the different regularities) are produced by the same talker (Antovich & Graf Estes, 2018;Gonzales, Gerken, & Gómez, 2018;Weiss, Gerfen, & Mitchel, 2009). ...