Publications

Aboaja, A., Perry, A. E., Steele, R., Dewa, L., Carey, J., Clarbour, J., Shah, S., Cairney, S. A. (in press).

Sleep interventions for adults admitted to psychiatric inpatient settings: a scoping review protocol. 

JBI Evidence Synthesis. 

 

Harrington, M.O., Ashton, J.E., Ngo, H-V.V., Cairney, S.A. (in press). 

Phase-locked Auditory Stimulation of Theta Oscillations during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. 

SLEEP.

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Harrington, M.O., Ashton, J.E., Sankarasubramanian, S., Anderson, M.C., Cairney, S.A. (2020). 

Losing Control: Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Suppression of Unwanted Thoughts. 

Clinical Psychological Science.

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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). 

Growing up with interfering neighbours: the influence of time of learning and vocabulary knowledge on written word learning in children.

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. (2019).

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) 

Learning to live with interfering neighbours: the influence of time of learning and level of encoding on word learning.

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, 1-7.

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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). 

Commentary: Knowledge Acquisition during Exam Preparation Improves Memory and Modulates Memory Formation. 

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).

The Benefits of Targeted Memory Reactivation for Consolidation in Sleep Are Contingent on Memory Accuracy and Direct Cue-Memory Associations.

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).

Complementary Roles of Slow-Wave Sleep and Rapid Eye Movement Sleep in Emotional Memory Consolidation. 

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).

Overnight Consolidation Aids the Transfer of Statistical Knowledge from the Medial Temporal Lobe to the Striatum. 

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.