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Overview

Philippe Peigneux is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their primary area of research lies within the field of Neuroscience, with a strong focus on various subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics related to brain function and sleep, including Sleep and Wakefulness Research, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Sleep and related disorders, Neural dynamics and brain function, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, as well as Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Peigneux has published multiple papers across a variety of venues, frequently contributing to journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, SLEEP, Journal of Sleep Research, and Clocks & Sleep. The scientist's recent published papers include:

  • The microstructure of REM sleep: Why phasic and tonic? (2020) in Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • Comparing MEG and high-density EEG for intrinsic functional connectivity mapping (2020) in NeuroImage
  • ADHD and ASD: distinct brain patterns of inhibition-related activation? (2020) in Translational Psychiatry
  • Impact of Sleep Fragmentation on Cognition and Fatigue (2022) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Alterations in resting-state network dynamics along the Alzheimer's disease continuum (2020) in Scientific Reports

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Xavier De Tiège, Whitney Stee, Vincent Wens, Nicolas Coquelet, and Thomas Villemonteix. These collaborations reflect ongoing research efforts in related neuroscience topics.

Best Publications

  • Are spatial memories strengthened in the human hippocampus during slow wave sleep

    Philippe Peigneux;Steven Laureys;Sonia Fuchs;Fabienne Collette

  • Experience-dependent changes in cerebral activation during human REM sleep

    Pierre Maquet;Pierre Maquet;Steven Laureys;Philippe Peigneux;Sonia Fuchs

  • A time to think: Circadian rhythms in human cognition

    Christina Schmidt;Fabienne Collette;Christian Cajochen;Philippe Peigneux

  • Baseline brain activity fluctuations predict somatosensory perception in humans

    Mélanie Boly;Evelyne Balteau;Caroline Schnakers;Christian Degueldre

  • Both the hippocampus and striatum are involved in consolidation of motor sequence memory.

    Geneviève Albouy;Virginie Sterpenich;Evelyne Balteau;Gilles Vandewalle

  • Cortical Processing of Noxious Somatosensory Stimuli in the Persistent Vegetative State

    S. Laureys;M.E. Faymonville;P. Peigneux;P. Damas

  • Sleep transforms the cerebral trace of declarative memories

    Steffen Gais;Geneviève Albouy;Mélanie Boly;Thien Thanh Dang-Vu

  • Perception of pain in the minimally conscious state with PET activation: an observational study

    Mélanie Boly;Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville;Caroline Schnakers;Philippe Peigneux

  • Sleeping brain, learning brain. The role of sleep for memory systems

    Philippe Peigneux;CA Steven Laureys;Xavier Delbeuck;Pierre Maquet

  • Auditory processing in severely brain injured patients: differences between the minimally conscious state and the persistent vegetative state.

    Mélanie Boly;Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville;Philippe Peigneux;Bernard Lambermont

  • Learned material content and acquisition level modulate cerebral reactivation during posttraining rapid-eye-movements sleep

    Philippe Peigneux;Steven Laureys;Sonia Fuchs;Arnaud Destrebecqz

  • Daytime light exposure dynamically enhances brain responses

    Gilles Vandewalle;Evelyne Balteau;Christophe Phillips;Christian Degueldre

  • Encoding Difficulty Promotes Postlearning Changes in Sleep Spindle Activity during Napping

    Christina Schmidt;Philippe Peigneux;Vincenzo Muto;Maja Schenkel

  • The neural correlates of implicit and explicit sequence learning: Interacting networks revealed by the process dissociation procedure.

    Arnaud Destrebecqz;Philippe Peigneux;Steven Laureys;Christian Degueldre

  • Offline Persistence of Memory-Related Cerebral Activity during Active Wakefulness

    Philippe Peigneux;Pierre Orban;Evelyne Balteau;Christian Degueldre

  • Human cognition during REM sleep and the activity profile within frontal and parietal cortices: a reappraisal of functional neuroimaging data.

    Pierre Maquet;Perrine Ruby;Audrey Maudoux;Geneviève Albouy

  • Neural mechanisms involved in the detection of our first name: a combined ERPs and PET study

    Fabien Perrin;Pierre Maquet;Philippe Peigneux;Perrine Ruby

  • Homeostatic Sleep Pressure and Responses to Sustained Attention in the Suprachiasmatic Area

    Christina Schmidt;Fabienne Collette;Yves Leclercq;Virginie Sterpenich

  • Striatum forever, despite sequence learning variability: a random effect analysis of PET data.

    P. Peigneux;P. Maquet;T. Meulemans;A. Destrebecqz

  • Generation of rapid eye movements during paradoxical sleep in humans.

    Philippe Peigneux;Steven Laureys;Sonia Fuchs;Xavier Delbeuck

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Maquet
Pierre Maquet University of Liège
André Luxen
André Luxen University of Liège
Christian Degueldre
Christian Degueldre University of Liège
Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys University of Liège
Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Xavier De Tiege
Xavier De Tiege Université Libre de Bruxelles
Martin Desseilles
Martin Desseilles University of Namur
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva
Evelyne Balteau
Evelyne Balteau University of Liège
Eric Salmon
Eric Salmon University of Liège

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