Stefan Fischer

Summary

Affiliation: Innsbruck Medical University
Country: Austria

Publications

  1. ncbi Anticipated reward enhances offline learning during sleep
    Stefan Fischer
    Department of General Psychiatry, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:1586-93. 2009
  2. ncbi Developmental differences in sleep's role for implicit off-line learning: comparing children with adults
    Stefan Fischer
    Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
    J Cogn Neurosci 19:214-27. 2007
  3. ncbi Sleep's role in the processing of unwanted memories
    Stefan Fischer
    Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
    J Sleep Res 20:267-74. 2011

Detail Information

Publications3

  1. ncbi Anticipated reward enhances offline learning during sleep
    Stefan Fischer
    Department of General Psychiatry, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:1586-93. 2009
    ..After wake retention intervals, no or only minor performance gains were observed. The data show that expectancy for a reward enhances offline learning of a skill during sleep...
  2. ncbi Developmental differences in sleep's role for implicit off-line learning: comparing children with adults
    Stefan Fischer
    Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
    J Cogn Neurosci 19:214-27. 2007
    ..We speculate that the overnight decrease of implicit knowledge in children reflects a preferential effect of sleep toward the enhancement of explicit aspects of task performance that interferes with implicit performance gains...
  3. ncbi Sleep's role in the processing of unwanted memories
    Stefan Fischer
    Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
    J Sleep Res 20:267-74. 2011
    ..05). Thus, sleep does not benefit the forgetting of unwanted memories but, on the contrary, REM sleep might even counteract the voluntary suppression of memories making them more accessible for retrieval...