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Overview

Bernhard P. Staresina is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on neuroscience with a significant contribution to cognitive neuroscience.

Their research spans several subfields within neuroscience, including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

The main areas of scientific inquiry for Staresina cover:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

The scientist has contributed multiple papers to well-recognized academic venues. Among the most recent publications are:

  • "Endogenous memory reactivation during sleep in humans is clocked by slow oscillation-spindle complexes," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Sleep spindles mediate hippocampal-neocortical coupling during long-duration ripples," 2020, eLife
  • "A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "How coupled slow oscillations, spindles and ripples coordinate neuronal processing and communication during human sleep," 2023, Nature Neuroscience
  • "The hippocampus as the switchboard between perception and memory," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Staresina include:

  • Simon Hanslmayr
  • Maria Wimber
  • David T. Rollings
  • Vijay Sawlani
  • Ramesh Chelvarajah

The predominant venues for their publications, showcasing recurring engagement and contribution, are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Bernhard P. Staresina's work delivers insight into mechanisms of memory, neural oscillations during sleep, and the dynamic interplay within hippocampal circuits and neocortical areas. The breadth of their contributions reflects a sustained research interest in foundational brain functions related to memory processing and sleep-related neural patterns.

Best Publications

  • Hierarchical nesting of slow oscillations, spindles and ripples in the human hippocampus during sleep

    Bernhard P Staresina;Bernhard P Staresina;Til Ole Bergmann;Mathilde Bonnefond;Roemer van der Meij

  • Oscillations and Episodic Memory: Addressing the Synchronization/Desynchronization Conundrum

    Simon Hanslmayr;Bernhard P. Staresina;Howard Bowman

  • Differential Encoding Mechanisms for Subsequent Associative Recognition and Free Recall

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Lila Davachi

  • Mind the Gap: Binding Experiences across Space and Time in the Human Hippocampus

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Lila Davachi;Lila Davachi

  • Memory Consolidation Is Linked to Spindle-Mediated Information Processing during Sleep

    Scott A. Cairney;Anna á Váli Guttesen;Nicole El Marj;Bernhard P. Staresina

  • Episodic Reinstatement in the Medial Temporal Lobe

    Bernhard P Staresina;Richard N A Henson;Nikolaus Kriegeskorte;Arjen Alink

  • Selective and shared contributions of the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex to episodic item and associative encoding.

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Lila Davachi

  • Medial Temporal Theta/Alpha Power Enhancement Precedes Successful Memory Encoding: Evidence Based on Intracranial EEG

    Juergen Fell;Eva Ludowig;Bernhard P. Staresina;Tobias Wagner

  • Perirhinal and Parahippocampal Cortices Differentially Contribute to Later Recollection of Object- and Scene-Related Event Details

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Katherine D. Duncan;Lila Davachi

  • Awake reactivation predicts memory in humans

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Arjen Alink;Nikolaus Kriegeskorte;Richard N. Henson

  • A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations

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  • Working memory retrieval: Contributions of the left prefrontal cortex, the left posterior parietal cortex, and the hippocampus

    Ilke Öztekin;Brian McElree;Bernhard P. Staresina;Lila Davachi

  • Endogenous memory reactivation during sleep in humans is clocked by slow oscillation-spindle complexes

    Thomas Schreiner;Marit Petzka;Tobias Staudigl;Bernhard P. Staresina

  • Object Unitization and Associative Memory Formation Are Supported by Distinct Brain Regions

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Lila Davachi

  • Directional coupling of slow and fast hippocampal gamma with neocortical alpha/beta oscillations in human episodic memory.

    Benjamin J. Griffiths;George Parish;Frederic Roux;Sebastian Michelmann

  • A neural chronometry of memory recall

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Maria Wimber

  • Memory signals are temporally dissociated in and across human hippocampus and perirhinal cortex.

    Bernhard P Staresina;Bernhard P Staresina;Juergen Fell;Anne T A Do Lam;Nikolai Axmacher

  • Event Congruency Enhances Episodic Memory Encoding through Semantic Elaboration and Relational Binding

    Bernhard P. Staresina;James C. Gray;Lila Davachi

  • Sleep spindles mediate hippocampal-neocortical coupling during long-duration ripples.

    Hong Viet Ngo;Hong Viet Ngo;Juergen Fell;Bernhard Staresina

  • Sleep Spindles and Memory Reprocessing.

    James Antony;Monika Schönauer;Bernhard Staresina;Scott Ashley Cairney

  • Reversible Information Flow across the Medial Temporal Lobe: The Hippocampus Links Cortical Modules during Memory Retrieval

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Elisa Cooper;Richard N. Henson

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Hanslmayr
Simon Hanslmayr University of Glasgow
Juergen Fell
Juergen Fell University of Bonn
Nikolai Axmacher
Nikolai Axmacher Ruhr University Bochum
Lila Davachi
Lila Davachi Columbia University
Hajo M. Hamer
Hajo M. Hamer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Christian E. Elger
Christian E. Elger University Hospital Bonn
Rainer Surges
Rainer Surges University Hospital Bonn
Richard N. Henson
Richard N. Henson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Florian Mormann
Florian Mormann University of Bonn
Ole Jensen
Ole Jensen University of Oxford

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