Sleep-printing: unique sleep traits for predicting memory consolidation
Description: This project aims to develop new analysis methods via advances in brain monitoring to study and understand the variability in sleep and memory. By exploiting the wealth of information contained in mapping the brain’s activity patterns, this project expects to develop innovative 'fingerprints' of sleep that characterise memory performance. Expected outcomes include reliable and robust predictors of memory capability, novel naturalistic imaging techniques for studying human memory, and providing clearer understanding of the relationship between sleep and memory. This will provide significant benefits, such as the identification of sleep targets for optimising memory performance and mapping trajectories of normative memory ageing processes.
Funder: Australian Research Council
Amount: A$840,000
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: Discovery Projects
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Investigator: Nathan Cross
Institution: The University of Sydney
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Funded outputs count: 0
Funder award ID: DP260103461
OpenAlex ID: G6894952180