Dominik Philip Johannes Heib

Talking Brains: Neonatal Aperiodic Activity in Resting State EEG Relates to Later Communicative Abilities

This study finds that neonatal resting-state EEG aperiodic activity relates to 12-month communicative abilities in typically developing infants, showing an inverted U-shaped relationship.

From Variability to Synchrony: Non-linear Development of Auditory Neural Responses During the First Year of Life

This study tracks auditory neural development in infants using hdEEG, showing increased neural synchrony and reduced variability over the first year, with a nonlinear pattern of phase synchronization.

Sleep Preserves, Wake Differentiates: Strength-Dependent Forgetting of Declarative Memories Across the Retention Interval

This study shows sleep preserves declarative memories regardless of initial strength, while wakefulness selectively impairs weak memories.

Neural speech tracking in newborns: prenatal learning and contributing factors

The paper investigates prenatal language learning in newborns using EEG, finding evidence of discrimination between familiar and unfamiliar rhymes, prosodic learning, and correlations between maternal depression, fetal stress, and later language development.

Slow oscillation-spindle coupling strength predicts real-life gross-motor learning in adolescents and adults

The paper shows that stronger coupling between slow oscillations and spindles during sleep predicts better motor learning in adolescents and adults.

The brain tunes to unfamiliar voices during sleeping

This study investigates how the sleeping brain responds to familiar and unfamiliar voices, finding that unfamiliar voices elicit stronger neural responses, particularly through K-complexes and oscillatory activity.

Standing Sentinel during Human Sleep: Continued Evaluation of Environmental Stimuli in the Absence of Consciousness

The paper evaluates how environmental stimuli are processed during different sleep stages, finding that voice familiarity assessment continues during sleep and that sleep spindles and slow oscillations modulate stimulus processing based on salience.