Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology

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Address: Otfried-Müller-Straße 25
72076 Tübingen

Phone number: +49 7071 29-88923

Fax number: 07071 29-25016

E-mail address: anja.​otterbein@​uni-​tuebingen.​de

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Developmental aspects of sleep and memory

Research Aims

Early human development is characterized by rapid and extensive psychological and neurophysiological changes due to maturation and learning. For example, compared to adults, infants and children show a greater need for sleep. We hypothesize that this need can be partly attributed to the stronger memory formation at this age. We investigate how sleep and memory consolidation develop from infancy through childhood, looking in particular at the interplay between sleep, learning and memory during this period.

Contact

E-mail address: kinderschlaflabor-mp@medizin.uni-tuebingen.de

Laufende Projekte

Key publications

  • Bastian, L., Kurz, E. M., Näher, T., Zinke, K., Friedrich, M., & Born, J. (2024). Long-term memory formation for voices during sleep in three-month-old infants. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 215, 107987.
  • Bolinger, E., Born, J., & Zinke, K. (2018). Sleep divergently affects cognitive and automatic emotional response in children. Neuropsychologia, 117, 84-91.
  • Kurz, E. M., Bastian, L., Mölle, M., Born, J., & Friedrich, M. (2024). Development of slow oscillation–spindle coupling from infancy to toddlerhood. Sleep Advances, 5(1), zpae084.
  • Kurz, E. M., Conzelmann, A., Barth, G. M., Hepp, L., Schenk, D., Renner, T. J., ... & Zinke, K. (2019). Signs of enhanced formation of gist memory in children with autism spectrum disorder–a study of memory functions of sleep. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60(8), 907-916.
  • Wang, J. Y., Weber, F. D., Zinke, K., Inostroza, M., & Born, J. (2018). More effective consolidation of episodic long‐term memory in children than adults—Unrelated to sleep. Child Development, 89(5), 1720-1734.