Publications
Preprints
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Guttesen, A.Á.V., Harrington, M.O., Gaskell, M.G., Cairney, S.A. (2024)
Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?
PsyArXiv
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Published Papers
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Harrington, M.O., Karapanagiotidis, T., Phillips, L., Smallwood, J., Anderson, M.C., Cairney, S.A. (2025)
Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122
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Sullivan, E.C., McCall, C., Brose, A., Henderson, L.M., Cairney, S.A. (2025)
Cognition and Emotion
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Cairney, S.A., Horner, A.J. (2024)
Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28, 881-883
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Guttesen, A.Á.V., Denis, D., Gaskell, M.G., Cairney, S.A. (2024)
Delineating memory reactivation in sleep with verbal and non-verbal retrieval cues
Cerebral Cortex, 34
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Aboaja, A.M., Dewa, L.H., Perry, A.E., Carey, J.F., Steele, R., Abdelsamie, A., Alhasan, G.T.A., Sharma, I.S., Cairney, S.A. (2024)
Sleep Medicine Reviews, 76, 101950
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See, Q.R., Raheel, K., Duncan, I., Biabani, N., Di Giuli o, I., Romigi, A., Kumari, V., O'Regan, D., Cairney, S.A., Urso, D., Chaudhuri, K.R., Gnoni, V., Drakatos, P., Rosenzweig, I. (2024)
Nature and Science of Sleep, 16, 263-277
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Denis, D., Cairney, S.A. (2024)
Electrophysiological mechanisms of memory consolidation in human non-rapid eye movement sleep
Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 10, 181-190
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Sullivan, E.C., James, E., Henderson, L.M., McCall, C., Cairney, S.A. (2023)
The influence of emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality on depression and anxiety
Cortex, 166, 286-305
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Denis, D., Cairney, S.A. (2023)
Neural reactivation during human sleep
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 7, 487–498
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Petzka, M. Staresina, B.P., Cairney, S.A. (2023)
Learning & Memory, 30, 245-249
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Pearson, O., Uglik-Marucha, N., Miskowiak, K.W., Cairney, S.A., Rosenzweig, I., Young, A.H., Stokes, P.R.A. (2023)
Journal of Affective Disorders, 327, 207-216
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Guttesen, A.Á.V., Gaskell, M.G., Madden, E.V., Appleby, G., Cross, Z.R., Cairney, S.A. (2022)
Sleep loss disrupts the neural signature of successful learning
Cerebral Cortex, 33, 1610-1625
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Ashton, J.E., Staresina, B.P. Cairney, S.A. (2022)
Sleep bolsters schematically incongruent memories
PLoS ONE, 17, e0269439
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van Rijn, E., Gouws, A., Walker, S., Knowland, V., Cairney, S.A., Gaskell, M.G., Henderson, L. (2022)
Do naps benefit novel word learning? Developmental differences and white matter correlates
Cortex, 158, 37-60
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Joensen, B.H., Harrington, M.O., Berens, S.C., Cairney, S.A., Gaskell, M.G., Horner, A.J. (2022)
Targeted memory reactivation during sleep can induce forgetting of overlapping memories
Learning & Memory, 29, 401-411
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Harrington, M.O., Cairney, S.A. (2021)
Sleep loss gives rise to intrusive thoughts
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 434-436
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Ashton, J.E., Cairney, S.A. (2021)
Future-relevant memories are not selectively strengthened during sleep
PLoS ONE, 16, e0258110
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Harrington, M.O., Ashton, J.E., Sankarasubramanian, S., Anderson, M.C., Cairney, S.A. (2021)
Losing control: sleep deprivation impairs the suppression of unwanted thoughts
Clinical Psychological Science, 9, 97-113
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Harrington, M.O., Ngo, H-V.V., Cairney, S.A. (2021)
No benefit of auditory closed-loop stimulation on memory for semantically-incongruent associations
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 183, 107482
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Harrington, M.O., Cairney, S.A. (2021)
Sounding it out: auditory stimulation and overnight memory processing
Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 7, 112-119
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Harrington, M.O., Ashton, J.E., Ngo, H-V.V., Cairney, S.A. (2021)
Phase-locked auditory stimulation of theta oscillations during rapid eye movement sleep
Sleep, 44
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Aboaja, A., Perry, A. E., Steele, R., Dewa, L., Carey, J., Clarbour, J., Shah, S., Cairney, S. A. (2021)
Sleep interventions for adults admitted to psychiatric inpatient settings: a scoping review protocol
JBI Evidence Synthesis, 19, 2389-2397
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Ashton, J.E., Harrington, M.O., Langthorne, D. Ngo, H-V.V., Cairney, S.A. (2020)
Sleep deprivation induces fragmented memory loss
Learning & Memory, 27, 130-135
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Walker, S., Gaskell, M. G., Knowland, V. C. P., Fletcher, F. E., Cairney, S. A. & Henderson, L. (2020)
Royal Society Open Science, 7, 191597
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Strachan, J.W.A, Guttesen A.Á.V., Smith, A.K., Gaskell, M.G., Tipper, S.P., Cairney, S.A. (2020)
Investigating the formation and consolidation of incidentally learned trust
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition, 46, 684-698
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Ashton, J.E., Harrington, M.O., Guttesen, A.Á.V., Smith, A.K., Cairney, S.A. (2019)
Sleep preserves physiological arousal in emotional memory
Scientific Reports, 9, 5966
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Antony, J.W., Schönauer, M., Staresina, B.P., Cairney, S.A. (2019)
Sleep spindles and memory reprocessing
Trends in Neurosciences, 42, 1-3
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Gaskell, M.G., Cairney, S.A., Rodd, J.M. (2019)
Contextual priming of word meanings is stabilized over sleep
Cognition, 182, 109-126
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Walker, S., Henderson, L.M., Fletcher, F.E., Knowland, V.C.P, Cairney, S.A., Gaskell, M.G. (2019)
Royal Society Open Science, 6, 181842
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Cairney, S.A., Guttesen, A.Á.V., El Marj, N. Staresina, B.P. (2018)
Memory consolidation is linked to spindle-mediated information processing during sleep
Current Biology, 28, 948-954
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Cairney, S.A., Lindsay, S., Paller, K.A. Gaskell, M.G. (2018)
Sleep preserves original and distorted memory traces
Cortex, 99, 39-44
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Ashton, J.E. Cairney, S.A., Gaskell, M.G. (2018)
No effect of targeted memory reactivation during slow-wave sleep on emotional recognition memory
Journal of Sleep Research, 27, 129-137
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Cairney, S.A., Sobczak, J.M., Lindsay, S., Gaskell, M.G. (2017)
Mechanisms of memory retrieval in slow-wave sleep
Sleep, 40
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James, E.L. & Cairney, S.A. (2017)
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10, 245
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Weighall, A., Henderson, L.M., Barr, D.J., Cairney, S.A., Gaskell, M.G. (2017)
Eye-tracking the time-course of novel word learning and lexical competition in adults and children
Brain and Language, 167, 13-27
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Cairney, S.A., Lindsay, S., Sobczak, J.M., Paller, K.A., Gaskell, M.G. (2016)
Sleep, 39, 1139-1150
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Durrant, S.J. Cairney, S.A., Lewis, P.A. (2016)
Cross-modal transfer of statistical information benefits from sleep
Cortex, 78, 85-99
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Cairney, S.A., Ashton, J.E., Roshchupkina, A.A., Sobczak, J.M. (2015)
A dual role for sleep spindles in sleep-dependent memory consolidation?
The Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 12328-12330
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Cairney, S.A., Durrant, S.J., Power, R., Lewis, P.A. (2015)
Cerebral Cortex, 25, 1565-1575
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Durrant, S.J., Cairney, S.A., McDermott, C., Lewis, P.A. (2015)
Schema-conformant memories are preferentially consolidated during REM sleep
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 122, 41-50
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Cairney, S.A., Durrant, S.J., Jackson, R., Lewis, P.A. (2014)
Sleep spindles provide indirect support to the consolidation of emotional encoding contexts
Neuropsychologia, 63, 285-292
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Cairney, S.A., Durrant, S.J., Hulleman, J., Lewis, P.A. (2014)
Targeted memory reactivation during slow-wave sleep facilitates emotional memory consolidation
Sleep, 37, 701-707
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Durrant, S.J., Cairney, S.A., Lewis, P.A. (2013)
Cerebral Cortex, 23, 2467-2478
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Cairney, S.A., Durrant, S.J., Musgrove, H., Lewis, P.A. (2011)
Sleep and environmental context: interactive effects for memory
Experimental Brain Research, 214, 83-92
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Durrant, S.J., Taylor, C., Cairney, S.A., Lewis, P.A. (2011)
Sleep-dependent consolidation of statistical learning
Neuropsychologia, 49, 1322-1331
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Lewis, P., Cairney, S.A., Manning, L., Critchley, H. (2011)
The impact of overnight consolidation upon memory for emotional and neutral encoding contexts
Neuropsychologia, 49, 2619-2629
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