Publications
IN PRESS
2025
Niu, X., Sanders, K. E., Denis, D., Cunningham, T. J., Zhang, G., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2025). Memory Deficits Link Trait-Like EEG Spectral Profiles During REM and Slow-Wave Sleep with Shared Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety. Behavioural Brain Research, 115932.
Niu, X., Sanders, K. E., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2025). Eveningness in Middle‐Aged and Older Adults: Associations With Sleep, Internalising Symptoms, and Alertness. Journal of Sleep Research, e70104.
Monkman, R. G., Faul, L., Maybury, J., Garcia, S. M., Chung, J., Echols, H., ... & Kensinger, E. A. (2025). Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory. Cognition and Emotion, 1-9.
Niu, X., Utayde, M. F., Sanders, K. E., Cunningham, T. J., Zhang, G., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2025). The effects of shared, depression-specific, and anxiety-specific internalizing symptoms on negative and neutral episodic memories following post-learning sleep. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 25(1), 114-134.
2024
Denis, D., & Payne, J. D. (2024). Targeted Memory Reactivation during Nonrapid Eye Movement Sleep Enhances Neutral, But Not Negative, Components of Memory. Eneuro, 11(5).
Niu, X., Utayde, M. F., Sanders, K. E., Denis, D., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2024). Age-related positivity effect in emotional memory consolidation from middle age to late adulthood. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 18, 1342589.
Denis, D., DiPietro, C., Spreng, R. N., Schacter, D. L., Stickgold, R., & Payne, J. D. (2024). Sleep and retrieval practice both strengthen and distort story recollection. Sleep Advances, 5(1), zpae083.
2023
Denis, D., Bottary, R., Cunningham, T. J., Tcheukado, M. C., & Payne, J. D. (2023). The influence of encoding strategy on associative memory consolidation across wake and sleep. Learning & Memory, 30(9), 185-191.
Martinez, B. S., Denis, D., Kim, S. Y., DiPietro, C. H., Stare, C., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2023). The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation. Cognition and Emotion, 37(5), 942-958.
2022
Denis, D., Sanders, K. E., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2022). Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2202657119.
Denis, D., Kim, S. Y., Kark, S. M., Daley, R. T., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2022). Slow oscillation‐spindle coupling is negatively associated with emotional memory formation following stress. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(9-10), 2632-2650.
2021
Cunningham, T. J., Bottary, R., Denis, D., & Payne, J. D. (2021). Sleep spectral power correlates of prospective memory maintenance. Learning & memory, 28(9), 291-299.
Yeh, N., Payne, J. D., Kim, S. Y., Kensinger, E. A., Koen, J. D., & Rose, N. S. (2021). Medial prefrontal cortex has a causal role in selectively enhanced consolidation of emotional memories after a 24-hour delay: A TBS study. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(29), 6273-6280.
Denis, D., Mylonas, D., Poskanzer, C., Bursal, V., Payne, J. D., & Stickgold, R. (2021). Sleep spindles preferentially consolidate weakly encoded memories. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(18), 4088-4099.
Cunningham, T. J., Mattingly, S. M., Tlatenchi, A., Wirth, M. M., Alger, S. E., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2021). Higher post-encoding cortisol benefits the selective consolidation of emotional aspects of memory. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 180, 107411.
2020
Denis, D., Kim, S. Y., Kark, S. M., Daley, R. T., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2020). Slow oscillation-spindle coupling impairs emotional memory consolidation following stress. doi: 10.1101/2020.06.08.140350
Kim, S. Y., & Payne, J. D. (2020). Neural correlates of sleep, stress, and selective memory consolidation. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 33, 57-64. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.12.009
Denis, D., Kim, S. Y., Kark. S. M., Daley, R. T., Alger, S., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2020). Slow Wave Sleep Time and Its Oscillatory Features Show Opposite Associations with Emotional Memory Consolidation Following Stress. Sleep, 43. doi:10.1093/sleep/zsaa056.107
Bottary, R., Kark. S. M., Daley, R. T., Payne, J. D., Kensinger, E. A. (2020). Emotional Memory-Associated Voxel-Extent Reactivation During Episodic Memory Retrieval Varies as a Function of Post-Learning Sleep. Sleep, 43. doi:10.1093/sleep/zsaa056.109
Denis, D., Mylonas, D. Poskanzer, C, Bursal, V., Payne, J. D., & Stickgold, R. (2020). Sleep spindles facilitate selective memory consolidation. doi:10.1101/2020.04.03.022434
Payne, J. D. (2020). Stress and Sleep Interact to Selectively Consolidate and Transform Negative Emotional Memories: Implications for Clinical Treatment: Implications for Clinical Treatment. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190881511.003.0007
2019
Bolinger, E., Cunningham, T. J., Payne, J. D., Bowman, M. Bulca, E., Born, J. & Zinke, K. (2019). Sleep's beneifts to emotional processing emerge in the long term. Cortex, 120, 457-470. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.07.008
Kim, S. Y., Kark, S. M., Daley, R. T., Alger, S. Reboucas, D., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2019). Interactive effects of stress reactivity and rapid eye movement sleep theta activity on emotional memory formation. Hippocampus, 29(10), 1-13. doi:10.1002/hipo.23138.
Martinez, B. S., Bergman, C., & Payne, J. D. (2019). Convergent effects of religion/spirituality- or mindfulness-based cognitive reappraisals on affective and physiological functioning. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 36. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.07.100
Martinez, B. S., Kim, S. Y., Payne, J. D., & Bergman, C. (2019). A comparison of emotional memory recognition following religion/spirituality- or mindfulness-based reappraisal intervention. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 38. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.07.106
Vargas, I., Payne, J. D., Kuhlman, K. R., Lopez-Duran, N. (2019). Acute sleep depreivation and the selective consolidation of emotional memories. Learning & Memory, 26(6), 176-181. doi:10.1101/lm.049312.119
Bowman, M. A., Cunningham, T. J., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., O’Rear, A. E., Pauszek, J. R., Ellickson-Larew, S., ... & Payne, J. D. (2019). Anxious, but not depressive, symptoms are associated with poorer prospective memory performance in healthy college students: Preliminary evidence using the tripartite model of anxiety and depression. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 1-10. PDF
Huguet, M., Payne, J. D., Kim, S. Y., & Alger, S. E. (2019). Overnight sleep benefits both neutral and negative direct associative and relational memory. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19(6), 1391-1403.
2018
Alger, S. E., Chen, S., & Payne, J. D. (2018). Do different salience cues compete for dominance in memory over a daytime nap?. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 160, 48-57. PDF
Alger, S. E., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2018). Preferential consolidation of emotionally salient information during a nap is preserved in middle age. Neurobiology of Aging, 68, 34-47. PDF
Cunningham, T. J., Leal, S. L., Yassa, M. A., & Payne, J. D. (2018). Post-encoding stress enhances mnemonic discrimination of negative stimuli. Learning & Memory, 25(12), 611-619. PDF
Payne, J. D., & Kensinger, E. A. (2018). Stress, sleep, and the selective consolidation of emotional memories. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 19, 36-43. PDF
2017
Blaxton, J., Bergeman, C., Whitehead, B., Braun, M., & Payne, J.D. (2017). Relationships among nightly sleep quality, daily stress, and daily affect. The Journals of Gerontology Series B, 72(3), 363-372. PDF
Chatburn, A., Kohler, M. J., Payne, J.D., & Drummond, S. P. (2017). The effects of sleep restriction and sleep deprivation in producing false memories. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 137, 107-113. PDF
Kim, S. Y., Pardilla-Delgado, E., & Alger, S. E. (2017). Enhancing memory consolidation through slow oscillation and spindle synchronization. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(48), 11517-11519. PDF
Pardilla-Delgado, E., & Payne, J. D. (2017). The Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) Task: A Simple Cognitive Paradigm to Investigate False Memories in the Laboratory. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), (119), e54793-e54793. LINK
Pardilla-Delgado, E., & Payne, J.D. (2017). The impact of sleep on true and false memory across long delays. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 137, 123-133. PDF
2016
Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (2016). The differential effects of emotional salience on direct associative and relational memory during a nap. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(6), 1150-1163. PDF
Bennion, K.A., Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2016). The impact of napping on memory for future-relevant stimuli: Prioritization among multiple salience cues. Behavioral Neuroscience, 130(3), 281. PDF
Bennion, K.A., Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2016). Residual effects of emotion are reflected in enhanced visual activity after sleep. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 17(2), 1-15. PDF
Pardilla-Delgado, E., Alger, S.E., Cunningham, T.J., Kinealy, B., & Payne, J.D. (2016). Effects of post-encoding stress on performance in the DRM false memory paradigm. Learning & Memory, 23(1), 46-50. PDF
2015
Bennion, K. A., Mickley Steinmetz, K. R., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2015). Sleep and cortisol interact to support memory consolidation. Cerebral Cortex, 25(3), 646-657. PDF
Bennion, K.A., Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2015). Selective effects of sleep on emotional memory: What mechanisms are responsible?. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 1(1), 79. PDF
Payne, J.D., Kensinger, E.A., Wamsley, E.J., Spreng, R.N., Alger, S.E., Gibler, K., ... & Stickgold, R. (2015). Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes. Emotion, 15(2), 176. PDF
2014
Bennion, K.A., Steinmetz, K.R.M., Kensinger, E.A., & Payne, J.D. (2014). Eye tracking, cortisol, and a sleep vs. wake consolidation delay: combining methods to uncover an interactive effect of sleep and cortisol on memory. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), (88), e51500-e51500. LINK
Chambers, A.M., & Payne, J.D. (2014). The influence of sleep on the consolidation of positive emotional memories: preliminary evidence. AIMS Neuroscience, 1(1), 39-51. PDF
Chambers, A.M., & Payne, J.D. (2014). Laugh yourself to sleep: memory consolidation for humorous information. Experimental Brain Research, 232(5), 1415-1427. PDF
Chambers, A.M., & Payne, J.D. (2014). Neural plasticity and learning: The consequences of sleep. AIMS Neuroscience, 1(2), 150-155. PDF
Cunningham, T.J., Chambers, A.M., & Payne, J.D. (2014). Prospection and emotional memory: how expectation affects emotional memory formation following sleep and wake. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 862. PDF
Cunningham, T.J., Crowell, C. R., Alger, S.E., Kensinger, E.A., Villano, M.A., Mattingly, S. M., & Payne, J.D. (2014). Psychophysiological arousal at encoding leads to reduced reactivity but enhanced emotional memory following sleep. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 114, 155-164. PDF
Payne, J.D. (2014). The (gamma) power to control our dreams. Nature Neuroscience, 17(6), 753-755. PDF
Payne, J.D. (2014). Seeing the forest through the trees. Sleep, 37(6), 1029-1030. PDF
2013
2012
Payne, J. D., Chambers, A. M., & Kensinger, E. A. (2012). Sleep promotes lasting changes in selective memory for emotional scenes. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 1-11. PDF
Payne, J.D., Tucker, M.A., Ellenbogen, J.M., Wamsley, E.J., Walker, M.P., Schacter, D.L., & Stickgold, R. (2012). Memory for semantically related and unrelated declarative information: the benefit of sleep, the cost of wake. PLoS One, 7(3), e33079. PDF
2011
Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2011). Sleep leads to changes in the emotional memory trace: evidence from fMRI. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(6), 1285-1297. PDF
Payne, J.D. (2011). Learning, memory, and sleep in humans. Sleep Medicine Clinics, 6(1), 15-30. PDF
Payne, J.D. (2011). Sleep on it!: stabilizing and transforming memories during sleep. Nature Neuroscience, 14(3), 272. PDF
Steinberger, A., Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2011). The effect of cognitive reappraisal on the emotional memory trade-off. Cognition & Emotion, 25(7), 1237-1245. PDF
2010
Hoscheidt, S.M., Nadel, L., Payne, J., & Ryan, L. (2010). Hippocampal activation during retrieval of spatial context from episodic and semantic memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 212(2), 121-132. PDF
Payne, J.D. (2010). Memory consolidation, the diurnal rhythm of cortisol, and the nature of dreams: a new hypothesis. International Review of Neurobiology, 92, 101-134. PDF
Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2010). Sleep’s role in the consolidation of emotional episodic memories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(5), 290-295. PDF
Tamminen, J., Payne, J.D., Stickgold, R., Wamsley, E.J., & Gaskell, M.G. (2010). Sleep spindle activity is associated with the integration of new memories and existing knowledge. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(43), 14356-14360. PDF
Wamsley, E.J., Tucker, M., Payne, J.D., Benavides, J.A., & Stickgold, R. (2010). Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Current Biology, 20(9), 850-855. PDF
Wamsley, E.J., Tucker, M.A., Payne, J.D., & Stickgold, R. (2010). A brief nap is beneficial for human route-learning: The role of navigation experience and EEG spectral power. Learning & Memory, 17(7), 332-336. PDF
Waring, J.D., Payne, J.D., Schacter, D.L., & Kensinger, E.A. (2010). Impact of individual differences upon emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Cognition and Emotion, 24(1), 150-167. PDF
2009
Payne, J.D., Schacter, D.L., Propper, R.E., Huang, L.W., Wamsley, E.J., Tucker, M.A., ... & Stickgold, R. (2009). The role of sleep in false memory formation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 92(3), 327-334. PDF
2008
Payne, J.D., Stickgold, R., Swanberg, K., & Kensinger, E.A. (2008). Sleep preferentially enhances memory for emotional components of scenes. Psychological Science, 19(8), 781-788. PDF
Payne, J.D., & Walker, M.P. (2008). Does delta sleep matter? PDF
2007
Ellenbogen, J.M., Hu, P. T., Payne, J.D., Titone, D., & Walker, M.P. (2007). Human relational memory requires time and sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(18), 7723-7728. PDF
Payne, J.D., Jackson, E.D., Hoscheidt, S., Ryan, L., Jacobs, W.J., & Nadel, L. (2007). Stress administered prior to encoding impairs neutral but enhances emotional long-term episodic memories. Learning & Memory, 14(12), 861-868. PDF
2006
Ellenbogen, J.M., Payne, J.D., & Stickgold, R. (2006). The role of sleep in declarative memory consolidation: passive, permissive, active or none?. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16(6), 716-722. PDF
Jackson, E.D., Payne, J.D., Nadel, L., & Jacobs, W.J. (2006). Stress differentially modulates fear conditioning in healthy men and women. Biological Psychiatry, 59(6), 516-522. PDF
Payne, J.D., Jackson, E.D., Ryan, L., Hoscheidt, S., Jacobs, W.J., & Nadel, L. (2006). The impact of stress on neutral and emotional aspects of episodic memory. Memory, 14(1), 1-16. PDF
2005 AND PRIOR
Payne, J.D., Britton, W.B., Bootzin, R.R., & Nadel, L. (2005). Beyond acetylcholine: Next steps for sleep and memory research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(1), 77-77.
Payne, J.D., & Nadel, L. (2004). Sleep, dreams, and memory consolidation: the role of the stress hormone cortisol. Learning & Memory, 11(6), 671-678. PDF
Nadel, L., Payne, J.D., & Jacobs, W. J. (2002). The relationship between episodic memory and context: Clues from memory errors made while under stress. Physiological Research, 51, S3-S12. PDF
Payne, J.D., Nadel, L., Allen, J.J., Thomas, K.G., & Jacobs, W.J. (2002). The effects of experimentally induced stress on false recognition. Memory, 10(1), 1-6. PDF
Deutsch, F. M., Servis, L.J., & Payne, J.D. (2001). Paternal participation in child care and its effects on children's self-esteem and attitudes toward gendered roles. Journal of Family Issues, 22(8), 1000-1024. PDF
BOOK CHAPTERS
Alger, S.E., & Payne, J.D. (2018). Sleep and Memory. The Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (4th Ed., Vol. 1).
Alger, S.E., Pardilla-Delgado, E., Mattingly, S.M., Cunningham, T.J., & Payne, J.D. (2017). The Cognitive Psychology of Sleep and Memory. Learning & Memory: A Comprehensive Reference (2nd Ed., Vol. 4).
Cunningham, T.J., & Payne, J.D. (2017). Emotional Memory Consolidation During Sleep. In Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Consolidation. (pp. 133-159). Springer International Publishing.
Chambers, A.M. & Payne, J.D. (2015). The memory function of sleep: How the sleeping brain promotes learning. In The Wiley Blackwell Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory, A. Duarte, M. Barense, & D. R. Addis (Eds.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Pardilla-Delgado, E., Mattingly, S.M., Alger, S.E., Chambers, A., Cunningham, T.J. (2015). Sleep’s role in the consolidation and integration of declarative memories. In Memory Consolidation, M. Sakakibara & E. Ito (Eds.). (pp. 199-234). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Alger, S.E., Chambers, A.M., Cunningham, T.J., & Payne, J.D. (2014). The role of sleep in human declarative memory consolidation. In Sleep, Neuronal Plasticity and Brain Function, P. Meerlo, R. M. Benca, & T. Abel (Eds.). (pp. 269-306). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Cunningham, T.J., Pardilla-Delgado, E., Alger, S., and Payne, J. (2014). The Role of REM Sleep in Emotional Memory and Affective Reactivity in Humans. In REM Sleep: Characteristics, Disorders and Physiological Effects, C. Saylor (Ed.). (pp. 1-28). Nova Science Publishers: New York.
Hoscheidt, S. M., Payne, J.D., Dongaonkar, B. & Nadel, L. Emotion, stress and memory (2010). In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology, Reisberg (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Alger, S.E., Lau, H., & Fishbein, W. (2009). Sleep Deprivation and Declarative Memory: A Brief Review. In Sleep Deprivation: Causes, Effects and Treatment. (pp. 223-238). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Payne, J.D., Ellenbogen, J.M., Walker, M.P., & Stickgold, R. (2008). The role of sleep in memory consolidation. In Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference and Concise Learning and Memory: The Editor’s Selection (John H. Byrne, Ed). (pp. 547-569). Elsevier Press. Oxford UK.
Payne, J.D., Nadel, L., Britton, W.B. & Jacobs, W.J. (2004). The biopsychology of trauma and memory. In Emotion and Memory, D. Reisberg and P. Hertel (Eds.). (pp. 76-128). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Nadel, L. & Payne, J.D. (2002). The hippocampus, wayfinding, and episodic memory. In The neural basis of navigation: Evidence from single cell recording, P. Sharp (Ed.).(pp. 235-247). Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.