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Our Research

We're conducting several projects related to two core research themes:

• Memory Consolidation and Emotion Regulation in Sleep

• Sleep, Language Acquisition and Development

Click on the links above for more information.

Our research has been supported by the ESRC, MRC, Wellcome Trust, Waterloo Foundation and White Rose Consortium. 

Be a participant!

To find out about the experiments that we're running and to be a participant visit the Department of Psychology's online experiment booking system.

If sleep doesn't serve some vital function, it is the biggest mistake evolution ever made. Allan Rechtschaffen.