Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Consciousness
Research group leader
- Name / Titel
- Prof. Katharina Henke
- katharina.henke@psy.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 40 04
Staff
- Sergej Wüthrich
- Else Schneider
- Romi Zäske
- Marc Züst
- Simon Ruch
Research focuses
- Unconscious and conscious learning
- Neural correlates of consciousness
- Hippocampus
- Sleep
Methods
- Behavioral measurement
- PET
- fMRI
- EEG
Short description
The group of K. Henke examines conscious and unconscious information processing and episodic memory formation using fMRI, PET, EEG, and behavioral methods in brain damaged patients and healthy controls. They found that human hippocampus mediates the rapid establishment of new associations in memory, irrespective of whether learning and retrieval were carried out with or without consciousness of learning/retrieving. They study the role of sleep learning and retrieving information.