The impact of overnight consolidation upon memory for emotional and neutral encoding contexts

► Context memory decays less during retention across sleep than retention across wake. ► This reduction in decay occurs to the same extent for both neutral and negative encoding contexts. ► Responses in hippocampus and superior parietal are stronger during context memory after sleep. ► Connectivity between parahippocampus and amygdala is enhanced during emotional context memory after sleep. ► Responses in the emotional memory system are enhanced in explicitly emotional context memory after sleep.