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Monika Schönauer
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Assistant professor @UniFreiburg interested in memory consolidation, sleep, reactivation. Head of the Imaging Memory and Consolidation Lab. Emmy Noether Research Group Leader "The Developing Engram." She/her. http://imagingconsolidation.com/
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Monika Schönauer @mschoenauer.bsky.social · Feb 26
In this new preprint from our lab, we share exciting new findings on how „Sleep resolves competition between explicit and implicit memory systems!“ 🧠 💤 🚨

Kleespies, Paulus, et al.
@katjakleespies.bsky.social @philipppaulus.bsky.social

For a brief walkthrough, I refer you to Katja‘s post below!
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plosbiology.org
Sleep supports brain health partly by regulating fluid dynamics to clear waste. @ulvlarsen.bsky.social &co probe the relation between #sleep & fluid movement in the human #brain, finding that #SleepPressure & intensity have distinct effects on brain pulsations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3XQWCL6
Sleep pressure and slow-wave-rich NREM sleep exert distinct effects on cerebral vasomotion and on brain pulsations driven by respiratory and cardiac forces. Heightened sleep pressure (following 35 h of wakefulness) promotes vasomotion (yellow box). Slow-wave-rich NREM sleep enhances brain pulsations driven by the respiratory and cardiac cycles—more so in gray and white matter than in the ventricles (red boxes). The respiration- and cardiac-driven brain pulsations also intensify with deeper sleep (N3 > N2) and correlate with EEG delta power, which is a measure of slow-wave activity (light vs. dark red boxes).
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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imagingneurosci.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Inès de Riedmatten, Ileana O. Jelescu, et al:

Evaluating the dependence of ADC-fMRI on haemodynamics in breath-hold and resting-state conditions

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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dgps-epsy.bsky.social
Biopsychologie meets Entwicklungspsychologie!

Die #DGPs-Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie & Neuropsychologie lädt zum virtuellen Kolloquium ein:

shorturl.at/3FPSU

Am 21.11.2025 spricht Dr. Markus Werkle-Bergner (@markuswb.bsky.social).

Wir freuen uns auf fachgruppenübergreifenden Austausch!
DGPs - Tagungen und Veranstaltungen
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs) ist eine Vereinigung der in Forschung und Lehre tätigen Psychologen und Psychologinnen. Die DGPs erstrebt die Förderung und Verbreitung der wissen...
www.dgps.de
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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fabian31415.bsky.social
Excited to present our recent work on how sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal–cortical circuit. #SFN2025 Board NN12 Nov 19 8 AM–12 PM #sleep #memory #HumanSingleNeuron
Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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tschreiner.bsky.social
At #SFN2025? Into sleep, brain rhythms, or single-unit–based memory reactivation? Then you absolutely should check out @fabian31415.bsky.social's poster. I might be biased, but this is some truly awesome work.
#neurosky #neuroskyence
fabian31415.bsky.social Fabian Schwimmbeck @fabian31415.bsky.social · 7d
Excited to present our recent work on how sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal–cortical circuit. #SFN2025 Board NN12 Nov 19 8 AM–12 PM #sleep #memory #HumanSingleNeuron
Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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denisejcai.bsky.social
Congrats @sjo09.bsky.social! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize is honoring YOUR Era's tour @sfn.org.
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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sacairney.bsky.social
Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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eitans.bsky.social
Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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brainworlds.bsky.social
In the next #BrAInWorldsJournalClub, Georgia Koppe will present the work of @ji-an-li.bsky.social, Marcus Benna & Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar.bsky.social 🧠in Nature, 2025: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09142-4 ✨Join @ilka-diester.bsky.social & @mschoenauer.bsky.social for an inspiring discussion! 💡
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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martinhebart.bsky.social
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.

A neural state space for episodic memories

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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eleanor-holton.bsky.social
When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge in people and ANNs? Great to have this out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

Work with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @tsonj.bsky.social, Lukas Braun and Jan Grohn
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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labnir.bsky.social
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience
Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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oxsleepmed.bsky.social
🎃 Halloween meets sleep science💤:
Our ECSM team's “Polysomnography Pumpkin” brought sleep science to the spooky season - earning second place at Oxford’s Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building Games!
Brains, electrodes, and a few spiders included.🧠
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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sjo09.bsky.social
Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab.
(1/2)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice
Engrams, ensembles of neurons that store memories, exist along a continuum of retrievability. Normally, sensory cues can reactivate a latent engram to…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻??
Astrocytes in the regulation of fear memories!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
h/t @claeneuro.bsky.social
The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory - Nature
Emotional experience evokes signalling in astrocytes, which form an ensemble that is reinforced by secondary astrocytic state changes resulting from repeated experience, leading to memory stabilizatio...
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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graichenl.bsky.social
✨My first first-author paper is out✨
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2
Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation
Nature Communications - Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in...
rdcu.be
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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collinsilvy.bsky.social
Out now in Psychological Reports: Ingredients of a Narrative: How an Abstract Feature Space and Event Position Contribute to a Situation Model doi.org/10.1177/0033...
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October 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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omriraccah.bsky.social
thrilled to share our preprint on false memories in naturalistic recollection!

Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls

paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social

thread below 👇
October 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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sampendu.bsky.social
Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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franklandlab.bsky.social
New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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katrinvogt.bsky.social
How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions
A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...
www.biorxiv.org
September 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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ondrejzika.bsky.social
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
September 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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mariamaly.bsky.social
How do we update our predictions when our environment changes?

The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.

Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Hippocampus Rapidly Integrates Sequence Representations During Novel Multistep Predictions
Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the hippocampus. For such predictions to be useful, they sh...
www.biorxiv.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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chrisbaldassano.bsky.social
What happens when we learn a new shortcut between places we thought were unconnected? Hannah found that the hippocampus rapidly adjusts its representations of environments to join them into a connected map - excited to share this final paper from her PhD work with me and @mariamaly.bsky.social !
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM