Sophie Schwartz
Group name: Sleep and Cognition Neuroimaging Laboratory
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences
Domains: Perception, Attention and Cognition, Affective and Social Neurosciences, Development and Plasticity
Keywords: brain imaging, brain plasticity, sleep
Research activities
Our lab is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying experience-dependent changes in the adult human brain. We also propose that models of learning and neural plasticity should account for important variations in behavioral and brain-states, such as those occurring during sleep. Our research focuses on distinct facets of neural plasticity: perceptual and emotional learning, offline replay of neural activity, and brain processes contributing to the selection of information (feedforward vs feedback effects). We also investigate dream reports because dreams provide important information about brain and mind functions during sleep. We study brain functions at the macroscopic systems level in healthy adult volunteers and in neurological patients. Our experimental approach includes the development of novel behavioral tasks, as well as measures of brain activity using functional MRI (fMRI) and high-density electroencephalography (EEG).
Latest publications
Interactions between physical exercise, associative memory, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Cardio-audio synchronization elicits neural and cardiac surprise responses in human wakefulness and sleep.
Evidence for an emotional adaptive function of dreams: a cross-cultural study.
Cognitive exertion affects the appraisal of one's own and other people's pain.
Hide the members of the Lab
Prof. Sophie Schwartz
+41 22 37 95 376
sophie.schwartz@unige.ch
Laurence Bayer
+41 22 37 95 455
laurence.bayer@unige.ch
Alice Clerget
Laure Colin
Victor Ferat
+41 22 37 90 883
victor.ferat@unige.ch
Gabriel Hinnen
+41 22 37 90 756
gabriel.hinnen@unige.ch
Kinga Igloi
+41 22 37 90 741
kinga.igloi@unige.ch
Célia Lacaux
Kevin Mammeri
kevin.mammeri@unige.ch
Blanca Marin Bosch
+41 22 37 90 759
blanca.marinbosch@unige.ch
Alison Montagrin
+41 22 37 90 751
alison.montagrin@unige.ch
Laura Riontino
+41 22 37 90 749
laura.riontino@unige.ch
Virginie Sterpenich
+41 22 37 90 740
virginie.sterpenich@unige.ch
Contact
Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Sophie.Schwartz@unige.ch