Dr Anna Guttesen
Tilleard-Cole Junior Research Fellow in Psychiatry/Neuroscience
Education
PhD (York)
In 2022, I completed my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging at the Department of Psychology, University of York. Currently, I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.
When we form a new memory, it is in a fragile state. I am interested brain rhythms during sleep and how they help transform these fragile memories into durable representations. In my research, I investigate memory retention in humans using behavioural measures, and brain rhythms during wake and sleep using MEG and EEG. To further promote memory consolidation during sleep, I also use interventions such as targeted memory reactivation – a technique where sounds, which have been linked to memories during previous wake, are replayed during specific sleep stages.
- Guttesen, A. á. V., Gaskell, M. G., & Cairney, S. A. (2023). Delineating memory reactivation in sleep with verbal and non-verbal retrieval cues. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.02.530762
- Guttesen, A. á V., Gareth Gaskell, M., Madden, E. V., Appleby, G., Cross, Z. R., & Cairney, S. A. (2022). Sleep loss disrupts the neural signature of successful learning. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac159
- Strachan, J. W., Guttesen, A. á V., Smith, A. K., Gaskell, M. G., Tipper, S. P., & Cairney, S. A. (2019). Investigating the formation and consolidation of incidentally learned trust. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000752
- Ashton, J. E., Harrington, M. O., Guttesen, A. á V., Smith, A. K., & Cairney, S. A. (2019). Sleep Preserves Physiological Arousal in Emotional Memory. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42478-2
- 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