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Overview

Ken A. Paller is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has a research focus in neuroscience and psychology, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including endocrine and autonomic systems, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and developmental and educational psychology.

Key research topics in their body of work include:

  • Sleep and wakefulness research
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Neuroscience and music perception

Paller has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Memory and Sleep: How Sleep Cognition Can Change the Waking Mind for the Better, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • Promoting memory consolidation during sleep: A meta-analysis of targeted memory reactivation, 2020, Psychological Bulletin
  • Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep, 2021, Current Biology
  • Preverbal Infants Discover Statistical Word Patterns at Similar Rates as Adults: Evidence From Neural Entrainment, 2020, Psychological Science
  • Multiple memories can be simultaneously reactivated during sleep as effectively as a single memory, 2021, Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paller include:

  • Eitan Schechtman
  • Karen Konkoly
  • Remington Mallett
  • Nathan W. Whitmore
  • Xiaoqing Hu

The scientist's work has appeared primarily in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SLEEP
  • Scientific Reports
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Observing the transformation of experience into memory

    Ken A. Paller;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Neural correlates of encoding in an incidental learning paradigm.

    Ken A. Paller;Marta Kutas;Andrew R. Mayes

  • Strengthening individual memories by reactivating them during sleep.

    John D. Rudoy;Joel L. Voss;Joel L. Voss;Carmen E. Westerberg;Ken A. Paller

  • Brain potentials during memory retrieval provide neurophysiological support for the distinction between conscious recollection and priming

    Ken A. Paller;Ken A. Paller;Marta Kutas

  • Upgrading the sleeping brain with targeted memory reactivation

    Delphine Oudiette;Ken A. Paller

  • Cued memory reactivation during sleep influences skill learning

    James W Antony;Eric W Gobel;Justin K O'Hare;Paul J Reber

  • Validating neural correlates of familiarity

    Ken A. Paller;Joel L. Voss;Stephan G. Boehm

  • Subliminal Smells can Guide Social Preferences

    Wen Li;Isabel Moallem;Ken A. Paller;Jay A. Gottfried

  • Concurrent Impairments in Sleep and Memory in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Carmen E. Westerberg;Bryce A. Mander;Susan M. Florczak;Sandra Weintraub

  • Attention induces synchronization-based response gain in steady-state visual evoked potentials

    Yee Joon Kim;Marcia Grabowecky;Ken A Paller;Krishnakumar Muthu

  • The neural basis of the butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon: when a face seems familiar but is not remembered.

    Galit Yovel;Ken A Paller

  • Recall and Stem-Completion Priming Have Different Electrophysiological Correlates and Are Modified Differentially by Directed Forgetting

    Ken A. Paller

  • Neural Evidence That Vivid Imagining Can Lead to False Remembering

    Brian Gonsalves;Paul J. Reber;Darren R. Gitelman;Todd B. Parrish

  • Brain networks for analyzing eye gaze

    Christine I Hooker;Ken A Paller;Darren R Gitelman;Todd B Parrish

  • The Role of Memory Reactivation during Wakefulness and Sleep in Determining Which Memories Endure

    Delphine Oudiette;James W. Antony;Jessica D. Creery;Ken A. Paller

  • Implicit and explicit contributions to statistical learning.

    Laura J. Batterink;Paul J. Reber;Helen J. Neville;Ken A. Paller

  • Acoustic Enhancement of Sleep Slow Oscillations and Concomitant Memory Improvement in Older Adults

    Nelly A. Papalambros;Giovanni Santostasi;Roneil G. Malkani;Rosemary Braun

  • Word repetition in amnesia. Electrophysiological measures of impaired and spared memory.

    John M. Olichney;Cyma Van Petten;Ken A. Paller;David P. Salmon

  • Monitoring Conscious Recollection via the Electrical Activity of the Brain

    Ken A Paller;Marta Kutas;Heather K McIsaac

  • Sleep Spindle Refractoriness Segregates Periods of Memory Reactivation

    James W. Antony;Luis Piloto;Margaret Wang;Paula Pacheco

  • When memory does not fail: familiarity-based recognition in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

    Carmen E. Westerberg;Ken A. Paller;Sandra Weintraub;M.-Marsel Mesulam

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel L. Voss
Joel L. Voss Northwestern University
Paul J. Reber
Paul J. Reber Northwestern University
Marcia Grabowecky
Marcia Grabowecky Northwestern University
M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Sandra Weintraub
Sandra Weintraub Northwestern University
Kenneth A. Norman
Kenneth A. Norman Princeton University
Todd B. Parrish
Todd B. Parrish Northwestern University
Andrew R. Mayes
Andrew R. Mayes University of Manchester
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
Gregory McCarthy
Gregory McCarthy Yale University

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