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Selected Publications

• Mednick SC, Drummond SPA, “Naps” in The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience eds. Squire L, Albright T, Elsevier London, 2008.

• Mednick SC, Kanady J, Cai D, Drummond SPA, Comparing the benefits of Caffeine, Naps and Placebo on Verbal, Motor, and Perceptual Memory. Behavioral Brain Research, 2008.

• Mednick SC, Drummond SPA, Boynton GM, Awh E, Serences J, Sleep-Dependent Learning and Practice-Dependent Deterioration on an Orientation Discrimination Task, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2008.

• Mednick SC, Drummond SPA, “Sleep: A Prescription for Insight?” INSOM,
  Summer 2004, Issue 3, 26-29.

• Mednick SC, Nakayama K, Cantero JL, Atienza M, Levin AA, Pathak N, Stickgold R, “The Restorative Benefit of Naps on Perceptual Deterioration,” Nature Neuroscience, July 2002.

• Mednick SC., Nakayama K., Stickgold R. “Sleep-dependent Learning: A Nap is as Good as a Night,”, Nature Neuroscience, July 2003.

• Mednick SC, Arman AC, Boynton GM, “The time course and specificity of perceptual deterioration” Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences USA 2005 Mar 8;102(10):3881-5. Epub 2005 Feb24.

Research Interests

"Dr. Mednick's research is devoted not only to understanding how napping can improve human performance but also, through the use of such cutting-edge technology as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), to actually pinpoint the areas of the brain that underlie these improvements."