Contact information
Research groups
Collaborators
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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
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Novel Electrophysiological Signatures of Learning and Forgetting in Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep.
Journal article
Shuster AE. et al, (2024), J Neurosci, 44
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Autonomic central coupling during daytime sleep differs between older and younger people
Journal article
Chen P-C. et al, (2022), Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 193, 107646 - 107646
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Understanding the roles of central and autonomic activity during sleep in the improvement of working memory and episodic memory
Journal article
Chen P-C. et al, (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2123417119 - e2123417119
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Age-related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap
Journal article
Chen P-C. et al, (2021), Psychophysiology, 58, e13701 - e13701
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Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep
Journal article
Chen P-C. et al, (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2109339118 - e2109339118