Huge congratulations to Nina and Charlotte on a successful MSci Poster Day! 🎉 After a year of hard work in the lab, it was wonderful to see them present their findings to the department yesterday.

New paper out in J. Neuro! We used MEG and pattern classifiers to ask: if a memory is reactivated in the brain, does that mean you'll recall it? Short answer: no. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... Read on for the details! [1/7] #neuroscience #memory

Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness

By definition, episodic memory is a conscious phenomenon. Memory traces reactivated by the hippocampus and reinstated in the sensory cortices need to enter conscious awareness for them to be re-experi...

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🔔PREPRINT: Sleep ripples drive single-neuron reactivation for human memory consolidation 1/9: How does sleep support human memory consolidation? To test this, we recorded hundreds of neurons in the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) across learning, wakefulness, and sleep. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Today we celebrated the OxCIN researchers practising, promoting, and advancing Open Science. Congratulations to the OxCIN Open Science Ambassadors' Award winners @levikumle.bsky.social and @gauravbhalerao.bsky.social! Read more about their work: tinyurl.com/2h9ncfcy

Happy World Sleep Day! OxCIN sleep researchers are at the JR Hospital today, talking to the public about sleep research and practical tips to improve sleep habits. Read more about our studies and ways to get involved: www.win.ox.ac.uk/research/res...

Check out our new paper! We evaluate what we know (and don't know) about the link between memory consolidation during sleep and next-day learning 👇

Marcus O. Harrington@harrington-mo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

😴 Sleep stabilises old memories and supports new learning. Are these benefits of sleep causally linked, driven by a common underlying mechanism, or largely independent? Our new paper digs into this important question! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

How well do classifiers trained on visual activity actually transfer to non-visual reactivation? #Decoding studies often rely on training in one (visual) condition and applying it to another (e.g. rest-reactivation). However: How well does this work? Show us what makes it work and win up to 1000$!

Come join our group!

The Neuroplastics 🧠@neuroplastics.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📣 We're hiring! 📣 Research Assistant in Sleep and Stroke Rehabilitation The Plasticity Lab are looking for a research assistant who will carry out studies investigating sleep, motor learning and recovery in healthy adults and people with brain injury. Details and application: shorturl.at/fgdm7

Excited to share our newly published paper! 👇 Massive thanks to @harrington-mo.bsky.social @sacairney.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social

Cognition@cognitionjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

"Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?" 📢 New paper from: Anna Guttesen (annaavali.bsky.social), Marcus Harrington (@harrington-mo.bsky.social), Gareth Gaskell (mggaskell.bsky.social), & Scott Cairney (sacairney.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 New paper alert! 📣 🔎 The RISES Study looked at the sleep regularity index in stroke survivors compared to people who haven't had a stroke. 🔗 See a summary of our findings in our infographic below, and find the full paper here: rdcu.be/emZ09 @oxcin.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Check out this exciting new paper on sleep regularity after stroke led by the brilliant @katschruers.bsky.social!

Katrijn Schruers@katschruers.bsky.social · last yr.

Just published my first paper! Really grateful to everyone at the plasticity lab @oxcin.bsky.social who made this possible. huge thanks to my co-authors — couldn’t have done it without you. If you want to check it out: 📄 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

join us at @oxexppsy.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk!

Katrijn Schruers@katschruers.bsky.social · last yr.

We're excited to share that our lab is hiring for the position of Lab Manager/Research Assistant. A great opportunity to join our lab! You can find full details and apply via the link below: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN515/r... Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!

Preprint alert! 🚨 1/ How does deep sleep reshape our memories? Our new study shows that slow-wave sleep (SWS) reorganises episodic memory networks, shifting recall from the parietal cortex to the anterior temporal lobe (ATL). With Polina Perzich and @bstaresina.bsky.social . A thread below👇

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

Slow wave sleep supports the reorganisation of episodic memory networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644966v1

Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...

Bad Sleep Lets Intrusive Thoughts Flood In

Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived

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From Bernhard Staresina: "Sleep spindles can be experimentally moved across the brain! In our new study, @thom_jude shows how spindles during sleep track cortical hot spots created during wake with transcranial electrical stimulation." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Human sleep spindles track experimentally excited brain circuits

Spindles are hallmark oscillations during non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep. Together with slow oscillations (SOs), they are thought to play a mechanistic role in the consolidation of learned inform...

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Ecstatic to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant to lead “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep” @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Stay tuned for job ads in 2025! #ERCCoG erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Consolidator Grants: ERC awards €678m in grants to back excellent research across Europe

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2024 Consolidator Grants to 328 researchers across Europe. These grants, totalling €678 million, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars ...

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