Wolfson JRF wins Cognitive Neuroscience Award

Pin-Chun Chen, Wolfson JRF (2024-) has been awarded the 2025 Post-Doctoral Fellow Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, recognizing outstanding contributions to cognitive neuroscience research. Congratulations Pin-Chun!

At the CNS 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston later this month, Pin-Chun will present her latest research on human hippocampal ripples during sleep and their role in memory consolidation. In this work, she utilized intracranial EEG (iEEG), combined with scalp EEG and single-unit recordings, to examine how ripples coordinate hippocampal neurons and cortical activity during different stages of sleep. Traditionally, ripples could only be measured from within the hippocampus, but this multimodal approach allows for groundbreaking insights into memory reactivation and consolidation across brain networks.

Pin-Chun is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Memory & Sleep Group at the Department of Experimental Psychology. Her research investigates how brain oscillations – ripples, spindles, and slow oscillations – support learning and memory across domains. She uses neuroimaging techniques including EEG, iEEG, and MEG to uncover the neural mechanisms underlying sleep-dependent memory processes.