Dan Denis
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Research Fellow

Profile

Biography

• 2017: PhD Psychology, University of Sheffield
• 2013: MRes Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
• 2012: BSc (Hons) Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London

Career

• 2022 – Present: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychology University of York
• 2019 – 2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, USA
• 2017 – 2019: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
• 2016 – 2017: Research Assistant, King’s College London, MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience

Research

Overview

Optimising memory: Understanding the role of sleep in selective memory strengthening

Projects

An adaptive feature of the brain is to selectively retain important and relevant information in long-term memory, through a period of memory consolidation. My project is exploring the role of sleep, and particularly the electrophysiological mechanisms of sleep, in the selective consolidation and strengthening of memories.

Research group(s)

• EPOC lab
• SLAM lab

Grants

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Experienced Researcher)

Collaborators

• Scott Cairney

Publications

Selected publications

• Denis, D., Kim S.Y., Kark, S.M., Daley, R.T., Kensinger, E.A., and Payne, J.D. (2022). Slow oscillation-spindle coupling is negatively associated with emotional memory formation following stress. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55 (9-10), 2632-2650
• Denis, D., Mylonas., D., Poskanzer, C., Bursal, V., Payne, J.D., and Stickgold, R. (2021). Sleep spindles preferentially consolidate weakly encoded memories. The Journal of Neuroscience. 41 (8). 4088-4099
• Denis, D., Bottary, R., Cunningham T.J., Zeng, S., Daffre, C., Oliver, K.L., Moore, K., Gazecki S., Mendelsohn, A.K., Martinez, U., Gannon, K., Lasko, N.B., Pace-Schott, E.F. (2021). Sleep power spectral density and spindles in PTSD and their relationship to symptom severity. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12, 766647
• Denis, D., Schapiro A.C., Poskanzer, C., Bursal V., Charron, L., Morgan, A., Stickgold, R. (2020). The roles of item exposure and visualization success in the consolidation of memories across wake and sleep. Learning & Memory. 27 (11). 451-456.

Full publications list

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