Sleep-dependent transformation of episodic memory during early life

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Jan Born; Marion Inostroza, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology ; Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 468645090

Sleep during early life differs in quantity and quality from adult sleep, while memory processing networks are immature. The hypothesis framing this project is that sleep during early development particularly serves the rapid transformation of episodic memory supported by hippocampal networks, into persisting schema memory supported by the medial prefrontal cortex. We examine this hypothesis in parallel in rodents and humans based on a spatial (rule) learning task.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 5434: Information Abstraction During Sleep