Our lab focuses on state-dependent aspects of cognition. Primarily, this involves studies of the role of sleep and dreaming in sleep-dependent offline memory processing. Human behavioral, psychophysiological, and brain imaging studies help us determine the role of sleep and dreams in a range of memory and emotional processes.
Cantero, J. L., M. Atienza, R. Stickgold, M. J. Kahana, J. R. Madsen and B. Kocsis (2003). Sleep-dependent theta oscillations in the human hippocampus and neocortex. Journal of Neuroscience 23(34): 10897-903
Manoach, D. S., M. S. Cain, M. G. Vangel, A. Khurana, D. C. Goff and R. Stickgold (2004). A failure of sleep-dependent procedural learning in chronic, medicated schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 56(12): 951-6.
Mednick, S., K. Nakayama and R. Stickgold (2003). Sleep dependent learning: A nap is as good as a night. Nature Neuroscience 6: 697-698.
Walker, M., T. Brakefield, J. A. Hobson and R. Stickgold (2003). Dissociable stages of human memory consolidation and reconsolidation. Nature 425: 616-620.
Walker, M. P. and R. Stickgold (2004). Sleep-dependent learning and memory consolidation. Neuron 44(1): 121-133.
Major Collaborative Activities:
Collaboration with Dara Manoach at MGH/Charlestown for studies of schizophrenia
Collaboration with Daniel Schacter at Harvard Dept. of Psychology (FAS) for memory studies
