One mode of human decision-making is considered intuitive, i.e., unconscious situational pattern recognition. Implicit statistical learning, which involves the sampling of invariances from the environment and is known to involve procedural (i.e., non-declarative) memory, has been shown to be a foundation of this mode of decision making. We present an ACT-R model of implicit learning whose imple...

Of late, an increasing number of studies have shown a strong relationship between sleep and memory. Here we summarize a series of our own studies in humans supporting a beneficial influence of slow-wave sleep (SWS) on declarative memory formation, and try to identify some mechanisms that might underlie this influence. Specifically, these experiments show that declarative memory benefits mainly ...