Psychology Colloquium: Memory Benefits of Sleep

Discourses from the Academy:

The Colloquium Series Sponsored by the Department of Psychology

The Memory Benefits of Sleep*

by

Matthew Tucker, Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

Candidate for Assistant Professor of Psychology, NMU

When:  Friday, January 25, 2013, 3:10 p.m.

Where:   Gries Hall, Room 167, N.M.U.

We are pleased to extend an invitation to all interested persons -- Faculty, Staff, Students, Members of the Public -- to join us in listening to and participating in this session of our Colloquia Series. For further information please contact the Psychology Department, N.M.U., 227-2935.

*Sleep is important for optimal cognitive functioning. My research focuses on how sleep enhances one essential cognitive function - memory processing - across a number of memory domains, under varying sleep conditions, and in different subject populations.