Responsibilities
Emmy Noether Group Leader
Contact
Department of Psychology
Leopoldstr. 13
D-80802 Munich
Email:
thomas.schreiner@psy.lmu.de
Website:
https://www.psy.lmu.de/knp/people/thomas_schreiner/index.html
Further Information
Keywords:
sleep, memory consolidation, memory reactivation, neural oscillations, brain-body interactions
Research methods:
EEG, iEEG, MEG
Brief research description:
Our work focuses on the neural mechanisms enabling memory consolidation, hence the strengthening of memories during sleep, in humans. We are interested in how neural oscillations facilitate memory reactivation and the behavioural expressions of memory consolidation, using electrophysiological recordings (intracranial and scalp EEG, MEG). In my Emmy Noether project we are investigating how brain-body interactions might shape the memory function of the sleeping brain.
Selected publications:
Schreiner, Kaufmann, Noachtar, Mehrkens & Staudigl, 2022. The human thalamus orchestrates neocortical oscillations during NREM sleep. Nature Communications, 13, 5231. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32840-w
Schreiner, Petzka, Staudigl & Staresina, 2021. Endogenous memory reactivation during sleep in humans is clocked by slow oscillation-spindle complexes. Nature Communications, 12, 3112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23520-2
Schreiner & Staudigl, 2020. Electrophysiological signatures of memory reactivation in humans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375: 20190293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0293
Schreiner, Doeller, Jensen, Rasch & Staudigl, 2018. Theta phase coordinated memory reactivation reoccurs in a slow-oscillatory rhythm during NREM sleep. Cell reports, 25(2), 296-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.09.037
Schreiner, Lehmann & Rasch, 2015. Auditory feedback blocks beneficial effects of cueing during sleep. Nature Communications, 6, 8729. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9729