Sophie Schwartz
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences
Group name: Sleep and Cognition Neuroimaging Laboratory
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
Brain reactivity to emotion persists in NREM sleep and is associated with individual dream recall.
Suppressing the Morning Cortisol Rise After Memory Reactivation at 4 A.M. enhances Episodic Memory Reconsolidation in Humans.
A single session of moderate intensity exercise influences memory, endocannabinoids and brain derived neurotrophic factor levels in men.
Reward biases spontaneous neural reactivation during sleep.
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
Kinga Igloi
+41 22 37 90 741
kinga.igloi@unige.ch
Guillaume Legendre
+41 22 37 90 745
guillaume.legendre@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
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Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Sophie.Schwartz@unige.ch