Björn Rasch

Anticipation of Stress and Relaxation Dynamically Impacts Sleep
Clocks & Sleep (2025) | Journal article

Differential expression of spatiotemporal sleep spindle clusters in aging
SLEEP Advances (2025) | Journal article

Musical harmony is processed during sleep: a proof-of-concept study
SLEEP Advances (2025) | Journal article

Music cue during slow wave sleep improves visuospatial memory consolidation
Journal of Sleep Research (2025) | Journal article

Difficulty in artificial word learning impacts targeted memory reactivation and its underlying neural signatures
eLife (2024) | Journal article

The first-night effect of sleep occurs over nonconsecutive nights in unfamiliar and familiar environments
SLEEP (2024) | Journal article

Probing the embodiment of sleep functions: Insights from cardiac responses to word‐induced relaxation during sleep
Journal of Sleep Research (2024) | Journal article

No Benefit in Memory Performance after Nocturnal Memory Reactivation Coupled with Theta-tACS
Clocks & Sleep (2024) | Journal article

Sustained polyphasic sleep restriction abolishes human growth hormone release
SLEEP (2024) | Journal article

Targeted memory reactivation during slow-wave sleep vs. sleep stage N2: no significant differences in a vocabulary task
Learning & Memory (2023) | Journal article

Is prior knowledge essential? Additional training opportunities restore sleep‐associated memory benefits under conditions of low prior knowledge
Journal of Sleep Research (2023) | Journal article

Neural correlates of sleep‐induced benefits on traumatic memory processing
Human Brain Mapping (2023) | Journal article

Olfactory Wearables for Mobile Targeted Memory Reactivation
Judith Amores Fernandez, Nirmita Mehra, Bjoern Rasch, Pattie Maes, (19.4.2023) | Conference

The role of cliffhangers in serial entertainment: An experiment on cliffhangers’ effects on enjoyment, arousal, and intention to continue watching.
Psychology of Popular Media (2023) | Journal article

Pre-sleep arousal induced by suspenseful series and cliffhangers have only minor effects on sleep: A sleep laboratory study
Sleep Medicine (2023) | Journal article

Stress dynamically reduces sleep depth: temporal proximity to the stressor is crucial
Cerebral Cortex (2022) | Journal article

Real‐time stimulation during sleep: prior findings, novel developments, and future perspectives
Journal of Sleep Research (2022) | Journal article

Real‐time, closed‐loop, or open‐loop stimulation? Navigating a terminological jungle
Journal of Sleep Research (2022) | Journal article

The Intention to React to Sounds Induces Sleep Disturbances and Alters Brain Responses to Sounds during Sleep: A Pilot Study
Clocks & Sleep (2022) | Journal article

Hypnotic enhancement of slow-wave sleep increases sleep-associated hormone secretion and reduces sympathetic predominance in healthy humans
Communications Biology (2022) | Journal article

Exposure to relaxing words during sleep promotes slow-wave sleep and subjective sleep quality
SLEEP (2021) | Journal article

No evidence for intra-individual correlations between sleep-mediated declarative memory consolidation and slow-wave sleep
SLEEP (2021) | Journal article

Embodiment of sleep‐related words: Evidence from event‐related potentials
Psychophysiology (2021) | Journal article

Hypnotic Suggestions Increase Slow-Wave Parameters but Decrease Slow-Wave Spindle Coupling
Nature and Science of Sleep (2021) | Journal article

Aspects of tree shrew consolidated sleep structure resemble human sleep
Communications Biology (2021) | Journal article

Systematic decrease of slow‐wave sleep after a guided imagery designed to deepen sleep in low hypnotizable subjects
Journal of Sleep Research (2021) | Journal article

How robust are sleep-mediated memory benefits?
Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2021) | Journal article

Healthy Sleepers Can Worsen Their Sleep by Wanting to Do so: The Effects of Intention on Objective and Subjective Sleep Parameters
Nature and Science of Sleep (2020) | Journal article

Inducing lucid dreams by olfactory-cued reactivation of reality testing during early-morning sleep: A proof of concept
Consciousness and Cognition (2020) | Journal article

Sleep and Plasticity: Do We Consolidate Memories Separately in Each Hemisphere?
Current biology : CB (2020) | Journal article

Episodic memory consolidation during sleep in healthy aging
Sleep medicine reviews (2020) | Journal article

No effect of targeted memory reactivation during sleep on retention of vocabulary in adolescents
Scientific reports (2020) | Journal article

HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BEFORE NIGHTTIME SLEEP EXTEND SLOW-WAVE SLEEP AS COMPARED TO A CONTROL TEXT IN HIGHLY HYPNOTIZABLE SUBJECTS
The International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis (2020) | Journal article

Memory quality modulates the effect of aging on memory consolidation during sleep: Reduced maintenance but intact gain
NeuroImage (2020) | Journal article

Effects of Relaxing Music on Healthy Sleep
Scientific Reports (2019) | Journal article

Effects of targeted memory reactivation during sleep at home depend on sleep disturbances and habituation
npj Science of Learning (2019) | Journal article

Increased neuronal signatures of targeted memory reactivation during slow-wave up states
Scientific Reports (2019) | Journal article

Quantification of Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Neuronal Oscillations: Comparison of Phase-Locking Value, Mean Vector Length, Modulation Index, and Generalized-Linear-Modeling-Cross-Frequency-Coupling
Frontiers in neuroscience (2019) | Journal article

Precise Slow Oscillation-Spindle Coupling Promotes Memory Consolidation in Younger and Older Adults
Scientific reports (2019) | Journal article

Psychosocial Stress Before a Nap Increases Sleep Latency and Decreases Early Slow-Wave Activity
Frontiers in psychology (2019) | Journal article

The effect of dream report collection and dream incorporation on memory consolidation during sleep
Journal of sleep research (2019) | Journal article

Structural brain differences predict early traumatic memory processing
Psychophysiology (2019) | Journal article

Let’s replay
eLife (2018) | Journal article

No effect of vocabulary reactivation in older adults
Neuropsychologia (2018) | Journal article

Theta Phase-Coordinated Memory Reactivation Reoccurs in a Slow-Oscillatory Rhythm during NREM Sleep
Cell reports (2018) | Journal article

Respiratory and cardiac monitoring at night using a wrist wearable optical system
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference (2018) | Journal article

INFLUENCE OF PRE-SLEEP SOCIAL MEDIA CONSUMPTION ON SLEEP AND SLEEP-ASSOCIATED MEMORY CONSOLIDATION
Psychophysiology (2018) | Journal article

INVESTIGATING NEURONAL CORRELATES OF HYPNOSIS THAT IMPROVES SUBSEQUENT SLEEP
Psychophysiology (2018) | Journal article

Odor cueing during slow-wave sleep benefits memory independently of low cholinergic tone
Psychopharmacology (2018) | Journal article

To gain or not to gain – The complex role of sleep for memory
Cortex (2018) | Journal article

Reactivation of interference during sleep does not impair ongoing memory consolidation
Memory (2018) | Journal article

The MemoSleep-Hypothesis: how does cognition influence sleep?
Journal of Sleep Research (2018) | Journal article

Influence of hypnotic suggestions on spindles, slow oscillations and memory consolidation during sleep
Journal of Sleep Research (2018) | Journal article

Reinforcing Language Learning During Sleep
NEUROECONOMICS (2017) | Journal article

Work first then play: Prior task difficulty increases motivation-related brain responses in a risk game
Biological Psychology (2017) | Journal article

Targeted Reactivation during Sleep Differentially Affects Negative Memories in Socially Anxious and Healthy Children and Adolescents
The Journal of Neuroscience (2017) | Journal article

The beneficial role of memory reactivation for language learning during sleep: A review
Brain and Language (2017) | Journal article

Prior knowledge is essential for the beneficial effect of targeted memory reactivation during sleep
Scientific Reports (2017) | Journal article

Sleep and language learning
Brain and Language (2017) | Journal article

Neural correlates of experimental trauma memory retrieval
Human Brain Mapping (2017) | Journal article

Modulating influences of memory strength and sensitivity of the retrieval test on the detectability of the sleep consolidation effect
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2017) | Journal article

Sleep benefits emotional and neutral associative memories equally
Somnologie (2016) | Journal article

Motivational incentives lead to a strong increase in lateral prefrontal activity after self-control exertion
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2016) | Journal article

Memory cueing during sleep modifies the interpretation of ambiguous scenes in adolescents and adults
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2016) | Journal article

No Evidence for Memory Decontextualization across One Night of Sleep
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2016) | Journal article

Re-presentation of Olfactory Exposure Therapy Success Cues during Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep did not Increase Therapy Outcome but Increased Sleep Spindles
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2016) | Journal article

Effects of Sleep after Experimental Trauma on Intrusive Emotional Memories
Sleep (2016) | Journal article

Sleep’s role in the reconsolidation of declarative memories
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2016) | Journal article

Gamma band directional interactions between basal forebrain and visual cortex during wake and sleep states
Journal of Physiology-Paris (2016) | Journal article

Emotional arousal modulates oscillatory correlates of targeted memory reactivation during NREM, but not REM sleep
Scientific Reports (2016) | Journal article

Increasing Explicit Sequence Knowledge by Odor Cueing during Sleep in Men but not Women
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2016) | Journal article

Auditory feedback blocks memory benefits of cueing during sleep
Nature Communications (2015) | Journal article

Memory cueing during sleep modifies the interpretation of ambiguous scenes
Swiss Medical Weekly (2015) | Journal article

The neural correlates of the fear-reducing effects of glucocorticoids in phobia
Psychoneuroendocrinology (2015) | Journal article

In search of a role of REM sleep in memory formation
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2015) | Journal article

No Associations between Interindividual Differences in Sleep Parameters and Episodic Memory Consolidation
Sleep (2015) | Journal article

Improving sleep and cognition by hypnotic suggestion in the elderly
Neuropsychologia (2015) | Journal article

Cueing vocabulary during sleep increases theta activity during later recognition testing
Psychophysiology (2015) | Journal article

Replay of conditioned stimuli during late REM and stage N2 sleep influences affective tone rather than emotional memory strength
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2015) | Journal article

BAIAP2 Is Related to Emotional Modulation of Human Memory Strength
Plos One (2014) | Journal article

Boosting Vocabulary Learning by Verbal Cueing During Sleep
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) (2014) | Journal article

Deepening Sleep by Hypnotic Suggestion
Sleep (2014) | Journal article

Differential Effects of Non-REM and REM Sleep on Memory Consolidation?
Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports (2014) | Journal article

Frontal theta activity reflects distinct aspects of mental fatigue
Biological Psychology (2014) | Journal article

Letter to the Editor: Simply avoiding reactivating fear memory after exposure therapy may help to consolidate fear extinction memory - a reply
Psychological medicine (2014) | Journal article

Lunar cycle effects on sleep and the file drawer problem
Current Biology (2014) | Journal article

Neural substrates of similarity and rule-based strategies in judgment
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2014) | Journal article

No Associations between Interindividual Differences in Sleep Parameters and Episodic Memory Consolidation
Sleep (2014) | Journal article

No effect of odor-induced memory reactivation during REM sleep on declarative memory stability.
Frontiers in systems neuroscience (2014) | Journal article

Reactivating Memories during Sleep by Odors: Odor Specificity and Associated Changes in Sleep Oscillations
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2014) | Journal article

Sleep enhances exposure therapy
Psychological Medicine (2014) | Journal article

Sleep, learning and memory: relevance for psychiatry and psychotherapy
Nervenarzt (2014) | Journal article

Quantitative Methoden 1
BjÃ¶rn Rasch and Malte Friese and Wilhelm Hofmann and Ewald Naumann (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014), ISBN: 9783662435236 | Book

NEURAL PROCESSING OF TRAUMA MEMORY
Psychophysiology (2014) | Journal article

THE IMMEDIATE EVALUATION OF RISKINESS IN THE BRAIN
Psychophysiology (2014) | Journal article

A genome-wide survey and functional brain imaging study identify CTNNBL1 as a memory-related gene
Molecular Psychiatry (2013) | Journal article

ABOUT SLEEP'S ROLE IN MEMORY
Physiological Reviews (2013) | Journal article

Associations between Basal Cortisol Levels and Memory Retrieval in Healthy Young Individuals
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2013) | Journal article

Sleep deprivation increases dorsal nexus connectivity to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in humans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2013) | Journal article

Suppressing Emotions Impairs Subsequent Stroop Performance and Reduces Prefrontal Brain Activation
Plos One (2013) | Journal article

The BclI polymorphism of the glucocorticoid receptor gene is associated with emotional memory performance in healthy individuals
Psychoneuroendocrinology (2013) | Journal article

The sleeping child outplays the adult's capacity to convert implicit into explicit knowledge
Nature Neuroscience (2013) | Journal article

Emotion suppression reduces hippocampal activity during successful memory encoding
Neuroimage (2012) | Journal article

Offline consolidation of memory varies with time in slow wave sleep and can be accelerated by cuing memory reactivations
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2012) | Journal article

PKC alpha is genetically linked to memory capacity in healthy subjects and to risk for posttraumatic stress disorder in genocide survivors
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2012) | Journal article

Testosterone levels in healthy men are related to amygdala reactivity and memory performance
Psychoneuroendocrinology (2012) | Journal article

Stress, genes and emotional memory: implications for anxiety disorders
European Journal of Psychotraumatology (2012) | Journal article

Neuronal correlates of emotional olfactory processing during sleep
Journal of Sleep Research (2012) | Journal article

Biology needs more Psychology
Psychologische Rundschau (2011) | Journal article

Labile or stable: opposing consequences for memory when reactivated during waking and sleep
Nature Neuroscience (2011) | Journal article

No Elevated Plasma Catecholamine Levels during Sleep in Newly Diagnosed, Untreated Hypertensives
Plos One (2011) | Journal article

Statistical Epistasis and Functional Brain Imaging Support a Role of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels in Human Memory
Plos One (2011) | Journal article

The Memory Function of Noradrenergic Activity in Non-REM Sleep
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2011) | Journal article

Labile or Stable: Opposing Consequences for Memory when Reactivated during Waking and Sleep
Neuroforum (2011) | Journal article

Jäncke, L. & Petermann, F. (Hrsg.). (2010). Wie viel Biologie braucht die Psychologie [Themenheft]. Psychologische Rundschau, 61 (4)
Psychologische Rundschau (2011) | Journal article

Aversive stimuli lead to differential amygdala activation and connectivity patterns depending on catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype
Neuroimage (2010) | Journal article

Euglycemic Infusion of Insulin Detemir Compared With Human Insulin Appears to Increase Direct Current Brain Potential Response and Reduces Food Intake While Inducing Similar Systemic Effects
Diabetes (2010) | Journal article

Imaging genetics of cognitive functions: Focus on episodic memory
Neuroimage (2010) | Journal article

Quantitative Methoden: Einführung in die Statistik für Psychologen und Sozialwissenschaftler
Björn Rasch, Wilhelm Hofmann, Malte Friese, Ewald Naumann (2010) | Book

Quantitative Methoden Band 2: Einführung in die Statistik für Psychologen und Sozialwissenschaftler
Björn Rasch, Wilhelm Hofmann, Malte Friese, Ewald Naumann (2010) | Book

A genetic variation of the noradrenergic system is related to differential amygdala activation during encoding of emotional memories
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2009) | Journal article

Domain-specific learning of grammatical structure in musical and phonological sequences
Memory & Cognition (2009) | Journal article

Impaired Off-Line Consolidation of Motor Memories After Combined Blockade of Cholinergic Receptors During REM Sleep-Rich Sleep
Neuropsychopharmacology (2009) | Journal article

Pharmacological REM sleep suppression paradoxically improves rather than impairs skill memory
Nature Neuroscience (2009) | Journal article

Reactivation and consolidation of memory during sleep
Current Directions in Psychological Science (2008) | Journal article

Visual-procedural memory consolidation during sleep blocked by glutamatergic receptor antagonists
Journal of Neuroscience (2008) | Journal article

The contribution of the noradrenergic system to memory consolidation during sleep in humans
International Journal of Psychology (2008) | Journal article

Maintaining memories by reactivation
Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2007) | Journal article

Odor cues during slow-wave sleep prompt declarative memory consolidation
Science (2007) | Journal article

PreproTRH((158-183)) fails to affect pituitary-adrenal response to CRH/vasopressin in man: A pilot study
Neuropeptides (2007) | Journal article

Sleep-stage-specific regulation of plasma catecholamine concentration
Psychoneuroendocrinology (2007) | Journal article

A 3-day estrogen treatment improves prefrontal cortex-dependent cognitive function in postmenopausal women
Psychoneuroendocrinology (2006) | Journal article

Brief sleep after learning keeps emotional memories alive for years
Biological Psychiatry (2006) | Journal article

Combined blockade of cholinergic receptors shifts the brain from stimulus encoding to memory consolidation
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2006) | Journal article

Perspective-taking vs. mental rotation transformations and how they predict spatial navigation performance
Applied Cognitive Psychology (2006) | Journal article

Sleep to remember
Neuroscientist (2006) | Journal article

Presentation of a learning-associated odour during slow wave sleep enhances declarative memory consolidation
Journal of Sleep Research (2006) | Journal article

Convergence and divergence between EEG and fMRI results in an emotional paradigm
Journal of Psychophysiology (2006) | Journal article

Influence of the serotonin-reuptake inhibitor fluvoxamine on procedural memory consolidation during sleep
Journal of Psychophysiology (2006) | Journal article

Influence of the selective serotonin reuptake-inhibitor fluvoxamine on procedural memory consolidation during sleep
Journal of Sleep Research (2006) | Journal article

The contribution of the noradrenergic system to memory consolidation during sleep in humans
Journal of Sleep Research (2006) | Journal article

Quantitative Methoden: Einführung in die Statistik
Björn Rasch, Wilhelm Hofmann, Malte Friese, Ewald Naumann (2006) | Book

Glutamate-receptor involvement in sleep-related memory consolidation
Journal of Psychophysiology (2005) | Journal article

Complete cholinergic blockade can improve memory
Journal of Psychophysiology (2004) | Journal article

Quantitative Methoden Band 2
Björn Rasch, Malte Friese, Wilhelm Hofmann, Ewald Naumann (2004) | Book

Interactions between emotion and cognition in medial prefrontal cortex: An fMRI study
Journal of Psychophysiology (2003) | Journal article

Viewing Affective Slides: ERP and event-related fMRI correlates
Journal of Psychophysiology (2003) | Journal article

Context effects in memory for routes
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2003) | Journal article

Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning
Cognition (2002) | Journal article

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