Monika Schönauer
@mschoenauer.bsky.social
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!
Kleespies, Paulus, et al.
@katjakleespies.bsky.social @philipppaulus.bsky.social
For a brief walkthrough, I refer you to Katja‘s post below!
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
New paper alert! 🚨
We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales
1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit
This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.
Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP
We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales
1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit
This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.
Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP
February 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
New paper alert! 🚨
We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales
1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit
This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.
Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP
We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales
1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit
This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.
Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd
Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor
Sessions on:
memory processes
sleep & replay
analysis and stimulation techniques
www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...
plz rp
Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor
Sessions on:
memory processes
sleep & replay
analysis and stimulation techniques
www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...
plz rp
MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep
Join our 4-day summer school on memory consolidation, neural replay, and sleep. May 31–June 3, 2026 in Heidelberg. For Master, PhD students & postdocs.
www.zi-mannheim.de
February 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd
Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor
Sessions on:
memory processes
sleep & replay
analysis and stimulation techniques
www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...
plz rp
Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor
Sessions on:
memory processes
sleep & replay
analysis and stimulation techniques
www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...
plz rp
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02403-w
tinyurl.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions
rdcu.be/eRVUk
rdcu.be/eRVUk
Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
Nature - The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.
rdcu.be
February 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions
rdcu.be/eRVUk
rdcu.be/eRVUk
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
"..hippocampal-prefrontal systems represent emotion concepts in a map-like way at multiple levels of abstraction.."
Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems
by
@yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems
by
@yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM
"..hippocampal-prefrontal systems represent emotion concepts in a map-like way at multiple levels of abstraction.."
Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems
by
@yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems
by
@yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Happy to be part of this new paper analyzing lesion-induced aphantasia, now accepted in Cortex. One more reason to believe that the Fusiform Imagery Node is important for the conscious experience of mental imagery. Here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....
Lesions Causing Aphantasia are Connected to the Fusiform Imagery Node
The absence of visual mental imagery, called aphantasia, occurs congenitally in up to 3% of the general population, but the brain regions responsible for aphantasia remain uncertain. Rare cases of acq...
www.medrxiv.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Happy to be part of this new paper analyzing lesion-induced aphantasia, now accepted in Cortex. One more reason to believe that the Fusiform Imagery Node is important for the conscious experience of mental imagery. Here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
January 23, 2026 at 6:41 AM
📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!!
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
A unifying account of replay as context-driven memory reactivation
A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.
elifesciences.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!!
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Our new work on human navigation strategies and related neural correlates is out! Thanks to Nikolai Axmacher, @lukaskunz.bsky.social and others in the team for a great opportunity to look at this dataset of iEEG and fMRI. doi.org/10.64898/202... code: github.com/zits69/Arena
It’s All In The Journey: Putative Strategies Extracted from Navigation Paths Predict Spatial Memory and Hippocampal Recruitment
Navigation in the real world may rely on a multitude of different strategies with distinct advantages and disadvantages. However, the characterization of spontaneous strategy use during wayfinding and...
doi.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Our new work on human navigation strategies and related neural correlates is out! Thanks to Nikolai Axmacher, @lukaskunz.bsky.social and others in the team for a great opportunity to look at this dataset of iEEG and fMRI. doi.org/10.64898/202... code: github.com/zits69/Arena
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Save the date for ICOM-7 (aka the Memory Olympics)
January 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Save the date for ICOM-7 (aka the Memory Olympics)
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Bei uns ist die eine W3 Päd. Psychologie zu besetzen ! jobs.zeit.de/jobs/profess...
Professur (W3) für Pädagogische Psychologie - Universität Bielefeld
Universität Bielefeld bietet Stelle als Professur (W3) für Pädagogische Psychologie in Bielefeld - jetzt bewerben!
jobs.zeit.de
January 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Bei uns ist die eine W3 Päd. Psychologie zu besetzen ! jobs.zeit.de/jobs/profess...
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
We are hiring postdocs to work on representational drift and network dynamics (ERC-funded project using calcium imaging /neuropixels). If you are interested, please get in touch!
Here is the link to the official job ad:
www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...
Here is the link to the official job ad:
www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...
www.uni-saarland.de
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We are hiring postdocs to work on representational drift and network dynamics (ERC-funded project using calcium imaging /neuropixels). If you are interested, please get in touch!
Here is the link to the official job ad:
www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...
Here is the link to the official job ad:
www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Dr. Till Roenneberg - chronotypes and social jetlag. Performance Around The Clock episode 27.
[January 2025]
youtu.be/pn3hpOsUT9I?...
[January 2025]
youtu.be/pn3hpOsUT9I?...
Dr. Till Roenneberg - chronotypes and social jetlag. Performance Around The Clock episode 27.
YouTube video by Performance Around the Clock w Dr. Satchin Panda
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Dr. Till Roenneberg - chronotypes and social jetlag. Performance Around The Clock episode 27.
[January 2025]
youtu.be/pn3hpOsUT9I?...
[January 2025]
youtu.be/pn3hpOsUT9I?...
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
New preprint w/ Malin Styrnal & @martinhebart.bsky.social
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New preprint w/ Malin Styrnal & @martinhebart.bsky.social
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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! 🧠🌬️
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Big thanks again to @tschreiner.bsky.social and the whole team who made this possible! 🧠🌬️
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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! 🧠🌬️
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Big thanks again to @tschreiner.bsky.social and the whole team who made this possible! 🧠🌬️
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online!
Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
Respiratory coordination of excitability states across the human wake-sleep cycle
While the respiratory rhythm is increasingly recognized as a key modulator of oscillatory brain activity across the wake-sleep cycle in humans, very l…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online!
Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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...
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
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...
Evaluating the dependence of ADC-fMRI on haemodynamics in breath-hold and resting-state conditions
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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!
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
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!
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!
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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
Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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
Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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
#neurosky #neuroskyence
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
Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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
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.
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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
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
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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!
#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Workshops, Socials & Special Events - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 CNS Account CNS 2026 | Workshops, Socials & Special Events SESSION DATE TIME LOCATION Satellite – International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Salon F Wor...
www.cogneurosociety.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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!
Reposted by Monika Schönauer
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
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! 💡