Monika Schönauer

This study shows how induced goals shift attention during memory encoding and bias narrative recall in a naturalistic setting.

This study shows that parietal gray matter volume expands and renormalizes within hours after associative learning, with changes linked to memory retention and sleep.

This study uses dense diffusion MRI sampling to show that learning induces microstructural changes in the brain, specifically in the left middle occipital/temporal gyrus, during and after a memory task.

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.

This study examines how emotional intensity in dreams changes throughout the night and finds it increases, though not due to REM sleep awakenings.

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.

The paper shows sleep resolves competition between explicit and implicit memory components and improves generalization of knowledge.

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.

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.

This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 53 studies to examine the relationship between sleep spindles and memory performance, finding a small to moderate effect with stronger associations for procedural memory.

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.

This study uses machine learning on MEG data to show localized memory reprocessing in hippocampus and neocortex during sleep.