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As demonstrated in Figure 2b, there was a significant positive relationship between stage-2 NREM and the amount of motor skill enhancement (Pearson correlation r = 55, p = 0.04), with those subjects obtaining the most stage-2 NREM demonstrating the largest consolidation benefit at later testing.

Subjects that napped showed a consolidation benefit for emotional but not neutral memories.

The No-Nap control group showed no evidence of a consolidation benefit for either memory type.

It is conceivable that the observed consolidation benefit was dependent on the brain-state of sleep occurring immediately following learning (i.e., the sleep period occurring soon after the first (4 h) study session in the Nap group).

Therefore, a selective offline consolidation benefit for emotional memory was observed in the Nap group; a difference that was not observed across the simple passage of time, as evidenced by the lack of performance difference for emotional memory in the No-Nap group.

Rather than the nap affording an offline consolidation benefit, an alternative explanation is that sleep confers a detrimental postnap effect on encoding ability at the 15-min study session, artificially inflating the difference between 4-h and 15-min test performance.

The lack of interference in the Nap group should result in global consolidation benefits for both emotional and neutral memory categories.

Indeed, one may predict that affective stimuli, being more emotional and potent, should be less susceptible to interference across the day, and result in more similar consolidation benefits to those observed in the No-Nap group.

Furthermore, our current study focused principally on a short epoch of sleep (but see data in Supplemental Fig. 1), which, although containing NREM SWS, may not have been sufficient to trigger robust neutral memory consolidation benefits.

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