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Eye Tracking, Cortisol, and a Sleep vs. Wake Consolidation Delay: Combining Methods to Uncover an Interactive Effect of Sleep and Cortisol on Memory
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Eye Tracking, Cortisol, and a Sleep vs. Wake Consolidation Delay: Combining Methods to Uncover an Interactive Effect of Sleep and Cortisol on Memory

Published on: June 18, 2014

[Relation between sleep and processes of retention and mental activity]

V I Maloletnev, S P Narikashvili

    Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal SSSR Imeni I. M. Sechenova
    |June 1, 1986
    PubMed

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