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Profile

Biography

• BSc in Psychology, University of York, UK, 2012-2015
• Research Assistant, Department of Public Health, Faroe Islands, 2015
• MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of York, UK, 2016-2017 
• Research Assistant, SLAM lab, University of York, UK, 2015, 2016-2017 
• Research Assistant, Computational and Biological Learning Lab, University of Cambridge, UK, 2017-2018 
• PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, University of York, UK, 2018-

Research

Projects

The role of sleep in learning

The aim of my PhD is to investigate the underlying mechanisms of sleep that are important for successful encoding.

Research group(s)

• Emotion Processing and Offline Consolidation (EPOC) lab
• Sleep, Language and Memory (SLAM) lab

Collaborators

• Dr Scott Cairney
• Professor Gareth Gaskell

• Dr Flavia Mancini
• Dr Ben Seymour

Teaching

Other teaching

GTA at undergraduate and postgraduate tutorials/seminars

Publications

Selected publications

• Cairney, S. A., Guttesen, A. Á. V., El, N. M., & Staresina, B. P. (2018). Memory Consolidation Is Linked to Spindle-Mediated Information Processing during Sleep. Current biology: CB, 28(6), 948-954.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.087