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Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication

Larios, E., & Lerner, I. (2024) Habitual rapid eye movement sleep predicts changes in test‐anxiety levels weeks in advance. Journal of Sleep Research, e14298
https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.14298
 
Brown D. M. Y., Lerner, I., Cairney, J. & Kwan, M. Y. W. (2024). Independent and joint associations of physical activity and sleep on mental health among 220,324 adults in 214 countries. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-024-10280-8
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Vickrey, B.C, & Lerner, I. (2023). Overnight Exposure to Pink Noise Could Jeopardize Sleep-Dependent Insight and Pattern Detection. Frontiers in human Neuroscience 17:1302836. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1302836
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10722168/

Lerner, I., Guijarro-Fuentas, P., Filippi, R., Li F., & Schwieter, J.W. (2023). Editorial: New Ideas in Language Sciences: Language Acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology, 14: 1250307. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1250307
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1250307/full

Wood, E., Westphal, J.K & Lerner, I. (2023). Re-evaluating Two Popular EEG-based Mobile Sleep Monitoring Devices for Home Use. Journal of Sleep Research: e13824.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jsr.13824

Lerner, I. (2023).  A Peculiar Phenomenon and its Potential Explanation in the ATP Tennis Tour Finals for Singles. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 19(1), 27-36.
https://doi.org/10.1515/jqas-2022-0043
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Lerner, I., Pilly, P.K., & Moustafa, A.A. (2022). Editorial: Mechanisms contributing to sleep-dependent memory generalization. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16:1106577. doi:10.3389/fnins.2022.1106577
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9808383/

Lerner, I., Gluck, M.A. (2022). Sleep Facilitates Extraction of Temporal Regularities With Varying Timescales. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16:847803. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2022.847083
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.847083/full
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Lerner, I., Lupkin, S.M., Tsai, A. & Gluck, M.A. (2021). Sleep to Remember, Sleep to Forget: Opposite Effects of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep on Recall and Discrimination of Fear Memories. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 180, 107413.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107413

Praveen, P.K., Skorheim, S.W, Hubbard, R.J., Ketz, N.A., Roach, S.M., Lerner, I., Jones, A.P., Bradley, R., Bryant, N.B., Hartholt, A., Mullins, T.S., Choe, J., Clark, V.P., Howard, M.D. (2020). One-Shot Tagging During Wake and Cueing During Sleep With Spatiotemporal Patterns of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation Can Boost Long-Term Metamemory of Individual Episodes in Humans. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16:1416. doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.01416  
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2019.01416/full

​Lerner, I., Gluck, M.A. (2019). Sleep and the Extraction of Hidden Regularities:  A Systematic Review and the Importance of Temporal Rules. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 47, 39-50.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2019.05.00

Lerner, I., Ketz, N. A., Jones, A.P., Bryant, N.B., Robert, B., Skorheim, S.W., Hartholt, A., Rizzo, A.S., Gluck, M.A., Clark, V.P., Pilly, P.K. (2019). Transcranial Current Stimulation During Sleep Facilitates Insight into Temporal Rules, but does not Consolidate Memories of Individual Sequential Experiences. Scientific Reports, 9, 1516. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-36107-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36107-7
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Lerner, I., Sojitra, R., Gluck, M.A. (2018). How age affects reinforcement learning. Aging (Albany NY). 10(12), 3630-3631.
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https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101649  
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Lerner, I. & Gluck, M.A. (2018). Individual Differences in Slow-Wave-Sleep Predict Acquisition of Full Cognitive Maps. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12: 404. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2018.00404
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00404/full

Sojitra, R. * , Lerner, I. * , Petok, J.R., & Gluck, M.A. (2018). Age Affects Reinforcement Learning Through Dopamine-Based Laerning Imbalance and High Decision Noise – Not Through Parkinsonian Mechanisms Neurobiology of Aging, 68, 102-113.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458018301283
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Lerner, I. *, Lupkin, S.M. *, Sinha, N., Tsai, A., & Gluck, M.A. (2017). Baseline Levels of Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep May Protect Against Excessive Activity in Fear-Related Neural Circuits. Journal of Neuroscience, 37 (46), 11233-11244.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/37/46/11233.full.pdf
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​Lerner, I. (2017). Unsupervised Temporal Learning during Sleep Supports Insight. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) 2017. Archived at:
http://www2.securecms.com/CCNeuro/docs-0/5928daeb68ed3f7a4e8a2571.pdf

Lerner, I., Lupkin, S.M., Corter, J.E., Peters, S.E, Cannella, L., & Gluck, M.A. (2016). The influence of sleep on emotional and cognitive processing is primarily trait- (but not state-) dependent.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 134, 275-286.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074742716301320

​Lerner, I., Armstrong, B.C., & Frost, R. (2014). What can we learn from learning models about sensitivity to letter-order in visual word recognition?  Journal of Memory and Language, 77, 4-58.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X14001041

Lerner, I., Bentin, S., & Shriki, O. (2014). Integrating the Automatic and the Controlled: Strategies in Semantic Priming in an Attractor Network with Latching Dynamics.  Cognitive Science, 38(8), 1562-1603.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12133/full

Lerner, I., & Shriki, O. (2014). Internally- and externally-driven network transitions as a basis for automatic and strategic processes in semantic priming: theory and experimental validation. Frontiers in Psychology 5:314. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00314
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00314/full

Lerner, I., Bentin, S., & Shriki, O. (2012). Spreading Activation in an Attractor Network with Latching Dynamics: Automatic Semantic Priming Revisited.  Cognitive Science, 36 (8), 1339-1382.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12007/abstract

Lerner, I., Bentin, S., & Shriki, O. (2012). Excessive Attractor Instability Accounts for Semantic Priming in Schizophrenia.       PLoS One, 7 (7):e40663.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040663
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0040663

Lerner, I., Bentin, S., & Shriki, O. (2010). Automatic and controlled processes in semantic priming: an attractor neural network model with latching dynamics. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.) Proceedings of the 32rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp 1112-1117). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6b83k8mt

Book Chapters

Lerner, I. (2017). Sleep is for the brain: Contemporary computational approaches in the study of sleep and memory and a Novel ‘Temporal Scaffolding’ Hypothesis. In: A. Moustafa (Ed), Computational Models of Brain and Behavior (pp. 245-256). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119159193.ch18/summary

Manuscripts Submitted or in Preparation

Brown, D.M.Y., Lerner, I., Cairney, J., & Kwan, Y. (Submitted). Independent and Joint Associations of Physical Activity and Sleep on Mental Health among 220,324 Adults in 214 Countries. 
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Larios, E.A.M, & Lerner, I. Habitual REM Sleep Predicts Test-Anxiety Levels Months in Advance. In Preparation.
 
Lerner, I., & Hamm, S. Sleep Contributes to the Formation of False Composite Memories. In Preparation.

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