The effect of sleep deprivation on the encoding of contextual and non-contextual aspects of emotional memory

These results indicate that sleep deprivation severely impairs the encoding of both contextual and non-contextual aspects of memory, resulting in significantly worse retention two days later. However, the preserved recognition of negative non-contextual events in sleep deprived subjects suggests that the encoding of negative stimuli is more “resistant” to the disruptive effects of sleep deprivation.