Anna Seewald

This study shows that concept learning can rapidly alter early visual cortex responses and microstructure, independent of prior knowledge or hippocampal reactivation.

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.

The paper identifies an inhibitory fear memory engram in the mouse central lateral amygdala composed of GABAergic neurons and shows its role in fear expression.

The paper identifies two distinct mechanisms by which dopaminergic inputs regulate amygdala intercalated cell clusters, enhancing fear extinction through direct inhibition and suppression of cluster interactions.