Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | 2018- | Department of Cognitive Sciences | University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA |
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sleep memory learningWebsite:
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"Sara Mednick"Bio:
In graduate school at Harvard University I worked with Robert Stickgold and Ken Nakayama studying the role of sleep in perceptual learning, using a nap design that provided methodological advancements from nocturnal sleep studies. For my post-doc at the Salk Institute and UCSD under Drs Sean Drummond (expert in sleep and cognitive aging) and Geoffrey Boynton (expert in fMRI and visual perception), I received an NIH NRSA fellowship to bring the technique of fMRI to bear on examination of the neural mechanisms underlying offline consolidation of perceptual learning. In 2011 I took a position as an Assistant Professor position at UCR Psychology Department (2011-2015), and recently tenured to Associate Professor in 2015. On Jan 1, 2018, I was hired as an Associate Professor at UC Irvine Department of Cognitive Sciences. In 2020, I moved the the Professor rank at UCI.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentorRobert Stickgold | grad student | |||
Ken Nakayama | grad student | 2003 | Harvard | |
(Naps prevent perceptual deterioration and facilitate learning in local networks of human visual cortex.) | ||||
Geoffrey Boynton | post-doc | Salk Institute | ||
Sean P. A. Drummond | post-doc | 2003-2008 | UCSD |
Children
Sign in to add traineeDenise J. Cai | grad student | Mt Sinai | |
Negin Sattari | grad student | 2018- | UC Irvine |
Ben Yetton | grad student | 2018- | UC Irvine |
Nicola Cellini | grad student | 2011-2012 | UC Riverside |
Katherine Duggan | grad student | 2011-2016 | University of Pittsburgh |
Elizabeth McDevitt | grad student | 2012-2017 | Princeton |
Lauren Whitehurst | grad student | 2013-2018 | University of Kentucky |
Kate Simon | post-doc | 2019- | UC Irvine |
Mohammad Niknazar | post-doc | 2012-2014 | UC Riverside |
Maryam Ahmadi | post-doc | 2014-2017 | UC Riverside |
Mohsen Naji | post-doc | 2013-2018 | UC Irvine |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaboratorMassimiliano de Zambotti | collaborator | ||
Paola Malerba | collaborator | 2018- | Nationwide Children's Hospital |
Publications
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Alipour M, Mednick SC, Malerba P. (2024) Predictive Modeling of Sleep Slow Oscillation Emergence on the electrode manifold: Toward Personalized Closed-Loop Brain Stimulation. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology |
Morehouse AB, Simon KC, Chen PC, et al. (2024) Heart Rate Variability During REM Sleep is Associated with Reduced Negative Memory Bias. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology |
Alzueta E, Gombert-Labedens M, Javitz H, et al. (2024) Menstrual Cycle Variations in Wearable-Detected Finger Temperature and Heart Rate, But Not in Sleep Metrics, in Young and Midlife Individuals. Journal of Biological Rhythms. 7487304241265018 |
Gombert-Labedens M, Alzueta E, Perez-Amparan E, et al. (2024) Using Wearable Skin Temperature Data to Advance Tracking and Characterization of the Menstrual Cycle in a Real-World Setting. Journal of Biological Rhythms. 7487304241247893 |
Whitehurst LN, Morehouse A, Mednick SC. (2024) Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep? Trends in Cognitive Sciences |
Shuster AE, Chen PC, Niknazar H, et al. (2024) Novel Electrophysiological Signatures of Learning and Forgetting in Human REM Sleep. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience |
Zhang J, Pena A, Delano N, et al. (2024) Evidence of an active role of dreaming in emotional memory processing shows that we dream to forget. Scientific Reports. 14: 8722 |
Alipour M, Seok S, Mednick SC, et al. (2024) A classification-based generative approach to selective targeting of global slow oscillations during sleep. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 18: 1342975 |
Niknazar H, Mednick SC. (2024) A Multi-Level Interpretable Sleep Stage Scoring System by Infusing Experts' Knowledge Into a Deep Network Architecture. Ieee Transactions On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence |
Remakanthakurup Sindhu K, Phan C, Anis S, et al. (2023) Physiological ripples during sleep in scalp electroencephalogram of healthy infants. Sleep |