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University of Tübingen
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11 papers
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Svenja Klinkowski, Anna Seewald, Björn Fath, Vanessa Kasties, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Silke Schmidt, F. Voss, Michael Erb, Klaus Scheffler, Steffen Gais, Svenja Brodt
This study shows that concept learning can rapidly alter early visual cortex responses and microstructure, independent of prior knowledge or hippocampal reactivation.
Progress in Neurobiology · Oct 9, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Felix Kleinschroth, Stella Villa, Antonia Lenders, Svenja Brodt, Steffen Gais, Monika Schönauer, Deniz Kumral
This study shows that parietal gray matter volume expands and renormalizes within hours after associative learning, with changes linked to memory retention and sleep.
bioRxiv · Sep 22, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience
Simon Kern, Juliane Nagel, Lennart Wittkuhn, Steffen Gais, Raymond J. Dolan, Gordon B. Feld
The paper investigates replay detection using TDLM and MEG during post-learning resting states and finds no evidence of replay, suggesting methodological limitations in detecting low-density replay events.
eLife · Apr 9, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Jessica Palmieri, Deniz Kumral, Sammy-Jo Wymer, Susanne Kirchner, Maximilian Schneider, Steffen Gais, Monika Schönauer
This study investigates how daytime narratives are incorporated into dreams and their relation to memory consolidation, finding that dream content reflects studied material and better recall correlates with stronger incorporation.
SLEEP · Sep 18, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Deniz Kumral, Jessica Palmieri, Steffen Gais, Monika Schönauer
This study shows that pre-sleep audiobooks influence neural activity and dream content during REM sleep, with beta power and neural reinstatement linked to memory performance.
iScience · Jul 2, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Katja Kleespies, Philipp C. Paulus, Hao Zhu, Florian Pargent, Marie Jakob, Jana Werle, Michael Czisch, Joschka Boedecker, Steffen Gais, Monika Schönauer
The paper shows sleep resolves competition between explicit and implicit memory components and improves generalization of knowledge.
bioRxiv · Feb 21, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience
Nora M. Roüast, Deniz Kumral, Steffen Gais, Monika Schönauer
This study investigates how random auditory stimulation during sleep affects slow-wave dynamics and declarative memory, finding reduced slow-wave sleep and impaired memory recall.
bioRxiv · Feb 6, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience
Vasiliki Provias, Monika Schönauer, Steffen Gais, Philippe Albouy, Jan Born A, Til Ole Bergmann, Emily B. J. Coffey
This study uses M/EEG to characterize theta-band activity during REM sleep, comparing it to working memory task-induced theta and identifying distinct spatial and frequency patterns.
bioRxiv · Oct 1, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience
Simon Kern, Juliane Nagel, Martin Fungisai Gerchen, Çağatay Necati Gürsoy, Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Peter Kirsch, Raymond J. Dolan, Steffen Gais, Gordon B. Feld
The paper shows that reactivation strength during cued recall decreases with graph distance, only in successful retrieval, suggesting graded clustered reactivation in cognitive maps.
bioRxiv · Jul 31, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience
Svenja Brodt, Monika Schönauer, Anna Seewald, Jonas Beck, Michael Erb, Klaus Scheffler, Steffen Gais
The paper shows that sleep enhances memory retention and brain activity in specific regions for memories consolidated during wakefulness, and that sleep integrates memory systems complementary to wakefulness consolidation.
bioRxiv · Mar 9, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience
Lea Himmer, Zoé Bürger, Leonie Fresz, Janina Maschke, Lore Wagner, Svenja Brodt, Christoph Braun, Monika Schönauer, Steffen Gais
This study uses machine learning on MEG data to show localized memory reprocessing in hippocampus and neocortex during sleep.
bioRxiv · Nov 29, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience