We now distinguish between declarative memory, the memory for facts and events (What did you have for breakfast?), and nondeclarative or procedural memory, the ability to retain motor skills (You ...

Figure 1: Functional MRI measures of neural activation associated with verbal declarative memory. To test this possibility, Bookheimer and colleagues reassessed memory in 14 of their subjects 2 ...

The study "An ultra short episode of sleep is sufficient to promote declarative memory performance", published in the Journal of Sleep Research, concluded that "memory performance improved ...