Sophie Schwartz
Group name: Sleep and Cognition Neuroimaging Laboratory
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences
Domains: Perception, Attention and Cognition, Affective and Social Neurosciences, Development and Plasticity
Keywords: brain imaging, brain plasticity, sleep
Research activities
Our lab is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying experience-dependent changes in the adult human brain. We also propose that models of learning and neural plasticity should account for important variations in behavioral and brain-states, such as those occurring during sleep. Our research focuses on distinct facets of neural plasticity: perceptual and emotional learning, offline replay of neural activity, and brain processes contributing to the selection of information (feedforward vs feedback effects). We also investigate dream reports because dreams provide important information about brain and mind functions during sleep. We study brain functions at the macroscopic systems level in healthy adult volunteers and in neurological patients. Our experimental approach includes the development of novel behavioral tasks, as well as measures of brain activity using functional MRI (fMRI) and high-density electroencephalography (EEG).
Latest publications
Scream's roughness grants privileged access to the brain during sleep.
Impact of spindle-inspired transcranial alternating current stimulation during a nap on sleep-dependent motor memory consolidation in healthy older adults.
Cardiac signals inform auditory regularity processing in the absence of consciousness.
Interactions between physical exercise, associative memory, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Hide the members of the Lab
Alison Montagrin
Virginie Sterpenich
Contact
Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Sophie.Schwartz@unige.ch