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Bernhard Staresina
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Pin-Chun Chen
Ph.D.
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
- Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences, University of California Irvine (USA)
- M.Sc. in Statistics, University of California Irvine (USA)
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Memory & Sleep Group (PI Bernhard Staresina). My research focuses on understanding how the sleeping brain orchestrates oscillations (ripples, spindles, slow oscillations) to facilitate learning in different memory domains (declarative memory, motor memory, working memory). To understand these processes, I use a combination of imaging techniques (EEG, iEEG, EEG-fMRI, MEG) to elucidate brain representations of memory during online and offline states.
Prior to joining Oxford, I completed a Master’s in Statistics and PhD in Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (USA), followed by one year of Postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). My work is funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Recent publications
Noradrenergic infraslow rhythm during sleep is the critical link between heart-rate dynamics and memory consolidation
Preprint
Jacobsen SS. et al, (2026)
Hippocampal Ripples during Offline Periods Predict Human Motor Sequence Learning.
Journal article
Chen P-C. et al, (2025), J Neurosci, 45
Vagal heart rate variability during rapid eye movement sleep reduces negative memory bias.
Journal article
Morehouse AB. et al, (2025), Front Behav Neurosci, 19
REM refines and rescues memory representations: a new theory.
Journal article
Shuster AE. et al, (2025), Sleep Adv, 6
Heart Rate Variability During Rapid Eye Movement Sleep is Associated with Reduced Negative Memory Bias.
Preprint
Morehouse AB. et al, (2024)