Ken Paller

Do House-Elves Clean Your Brain While You Sleep? -- the title of a fun paper I wrote covering memory and sleep from a cognitive neuroscience perspective, intended for young readers... and for the young at heart kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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"For years, I didn't fit the picture of someone I thought would have sleep apnea. If my story helps one person ... that's enough." 👋 Meet Cole Stasney, a veteran living with sleep apnea! Join the campaign! 💥 #SleepApneaLetsFaceIt https://project-sleep.com/sleep-apnea-lets-face-it/

👀 Spatial sequences might be replayed in parallel in the hippocampus. If true it might open a whole new interpretation in the MEG replay methodology results. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Erika Yamazaki's paper in iScience also covered here with many intriguing observations from Christopher Bergland: When Milliseconds Matter, Exhaling Quickens Response Time  | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Reposting, in case you missed it! 8-) Reskeet appreciated!

Things you learn in an elevator: In Switzerland, it is illegal to own a single guinea pig because these animals need social interaction.

Did you know that your speed — in a simple task of quickly pressing a button every time you see a yellow square — is faster when you are exhaling or pausing then when you are inhaling? Dr. Erika Yamazaki figured this out, did all the work, and published on it this week www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

For my friends in Toronto, this is going to be fun, and a bargain with General Admission at CA$10 www.eventbrite.ca/e/pavlovs-do...

Announcing two tenure-track faculty openings in the Psych Dept at Northwestern University: Cognitive/Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...

Are infraslow oscillations the missing link between sleep and Alzheimer's? #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠 https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.71525?af=R

"Engineering Healthier Dreams" with Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social and Daniel Morris, a 1-page article in AASM Montage (a quarterly publication just for members of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine) — here's a higher-quality version

"Engineering Healthier Dreams" with Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social and Daniel Morris, a 1-page article just published in AASM Montage (a quarterly publication just for members of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine)

“Contrary to emotional regulation theories of dreaming, these observations suggest that sleep and dreaming are associated with amplified emotional reactivity, at least in the short-term.”

Respiratory connections to brain oscillations are so interesting

There seems to be evidence, at least from lucid dreams, that the experience is in real time because communication is possible with dreamers (I find this mindblowing). Some report that they hear the signals as coming from objects in the dream (a radio, say). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My dept/area is hiring! We're open to animal species/model and research area. UCD is an amazing place to do nonhuman animal work - major 🐒 center, a band new rodent vivarium in the Psych building, and capacity to house all sorts of other animals! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07812

Nikki Greenwood just published a nice overview of a bunch of dream research in @timemagazine.bsky.social, featuring the work of Dr. Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social — but can someone please explain the images to me? time.com/article/2026...

I'm thrilled to announce that we are recruiting a new faculty colleague in our Northwestern University Clinical Science program this fall! Please share widely with your colleagues, students, and mentees! psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...

A nice opportunity for people to talk about sleep apnea in a supportive and informative group setting - August 9th

Non-invasive tracking of ripple-like activity during human sleep using MEG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.20.739563v1

☕️ Join us THIS Sunday, July 12 at 3 p.m. ET for Coffee with Emma! This FREE monthly Zoom call is a relaxed space to hear from others living with #sleepapnea, share what’s on your mind, and feel a little less alone. Register today: https://projectsleep.salsalabs.org/coffeewithemma/index.html

We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

Tomorrow will be another day - for this 2-day workshop - and I'll present 10 minutes on applications of Targeted Memory Reactivation in the Intervention Session.

Today's Keynote Talk beginning soon at this fun 2-day online workshop on Sleep and Cognition events.cancer.gov/nci/sleep-co...

New paper from our group: using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, we investigated the neural mechanisms underlying individual NREM sleep slow waves. Our findings suggest that slow waves are not a homogeneous phenomenon and may reflect distinct physiological processes. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Retrouvez la conférence de Delphine Oudiette du @institutducerveau.bsky.social à la tribune de l'Académie " Au-delà de la dichotomie veille-sommeil : vers une nouvelle vision des états de conscience" #Medsky 🧪 👩‍🔬#neuroskyence youtu.be/9rQXSclXS0E

No they don't! Humans report being conscious half of the time when awoken from NREM sleep. The NREM/REM, conscious/unconscious dichotomy has been thoroughly debunked. It's time we stop oversimplifying the relationship between sleep and consciousness!

Congrats to James!

Erika Yamazaki and I wrote about something we don’t even have (probably) — sleep apnea theconversation.com/sleep-apnea-...

Right on target: theconversation.com/photographic...

Thanks for this great article @shaylalove.bsky.social putting a bunch of memory-sleep-dreaming research and related history together in a fun way

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

‼️ An estimated 80 million Americans are living with sleep apnea, yet 80% are undiagnosed. Our #SleepApneaLetsFaceIt campaign is working to change that by breaking stereotypes, reducing delays in diagnosis, and helping more people feel seen and supported. ➡️ Get involved: https://ow.ly/QQmm50YJ2Ut

We have a lot to say about dreaming too: pallerlab.psych.northwestern.edu/pubs.html www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

Here’s some research just like what we do in my lab at Northwestern, almost theonion.com/poor-sleep-l...

I'm excited to share our preprint: "Selfing without a self: The missing dimension of identification in computational accounts of selfhood" The puzzle: How can meditators claim persistent selfless experience without dysfunction when computational accounts claim it's maladaptive? 🧵 t.ly/vDv4n

My first paper with @jkragel.bsky.social and Joel Voss came out yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! It’s real! :D www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Patricia Churchland's advice to @felipedebrigard.bsky.social www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com#/felipe-de-b...

Saturday was a good day for a fun chat about dreams and stuff with Katherine Bell on her podcast "the Dream Journal" (on ksqd.org/the-dream-jo...) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4H...

Check out this wonderful and amazing set of brief lectures from David Linden, perspectives from biological science on a bunch of fascinating topics