Check out our new paper! We evaluate what we know (and don't know) about the link between memory consolidation during sleep and next-day learning 👇
Exciting results from the truly amazing @mskehl.bsky.social!
I'm happy to share my debut as first-author with the recent publication of our article in #JNeurosci:
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Big thanks again to @tschreiner.bsky.social and the whole team who made this possible! 🧠🌬️
Well done Pin-Chun! Thanks also to @oxexppsy.bsky.social,
@oxcin.bsky.social, and @erc.europa.eu
🔔 Preprint: “Hippocampal ripples evoke a stereotyped cortical response followed by spindle-mediated network synchronization.”
Combining iEEG+scalp EEG during sleep, we show that hippocampal ripples leave a decodable cortical fingerprint and are followed by brain-wide spindle synchronization!
How are memories consolidated during sleep?
Excited to share another preprint: hippocampal SWRs route memory content to the cortex via interregional co-reactivation of concept cells, optimized by slow-oscillation–spindle coupling. With the great @tschreiner.bsky.social @humansingleneuron.bsky.social
Last week to apply! Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at @oxexppsy.bsky.social (with links to @oxcin.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ833/c...
How do experiences reshape our internal representations of the world? @bstaresina.bsky.social &co show that learning sequential experiences reshapes how the #brain represents what we see; a post-learning nap strengthens these predictive changes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dJGwMC
Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep.
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
Excited to be back to SoCal at #HSN2025 and #SfN2025 to present my recent work with @bstaresina.bsky.social. Pls come say hi. Would love to connect!
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Anna á V. Guttesen
Bernhard Staresina
Bernhard Staresina
Esteban
Bernhard Staresina
Fabian Schwimmbeck
PLOS Biology
Pin-Chun Chen
😴 Sleep stabilises old memories and supports new learning. Are these benefits of sleep causally linked, driven by a common underlying mechanism, or largely independent? Our new paper digs into this important question!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Pin-Chun Chen
Randolph Helfrich
Respiration has been shown to impact memory retrieval, yet the neural dynamics underlying this effect remain unclear. Here, we investigated how respiration shapes both behavioral and neural expression...
🔔PREPRINT: Sleep ripples drive single-neuron reactivation for human memory consolidation
1/9: How does sleep support human memory consolidation? To test this, we recorded hundreds of neurons in the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) across learning, wakefulness, and sleep.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Marcus O. Harrington
Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis!
Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠
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Thrilled that my recent paper, Hippocampal Ripples during Offline Periods Predict Human Motor Sequence Learning, was selected for the “This Week in The Journal” highlight! 🤩
Huge thanks to @bstaresina.bsky.social and our collaborators who made this work possible!
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#JNeurosci
How aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in human brain and impacts on ripple detections is not fully understood. Here authors show that ripple detections should be driven by the 1/f noise, whic...
High-frequency bursts in the hippocampus, known as ripples (80–120 Hz in humans), have been shown to support episodic memory processes. However, converging recent evidence in rodent models and human n...
Sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal-cortical circuit https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.15.699122v1
