Projects

Allergic asthma is a severe chronic airway disease affecting more than 300 million people worldwide. The disease arises in response to an excessive T cell immune response initiated by inhalation of environmental allergens, including house dust mite, pollen, and animal dander. While current treatments aim to control asthma symptoms, they are not curative; the basic mechanisms driving the disease are still not fully understood, and this impedes ...

Memory is a fundamental capacity that is intimately linked to our daily activities and underlies our identity, knowledge as well as our motor skills. Important discoveries over the last decades have greatly enhanced our understanding of the neural mechanisms supporting mnemonic processes. However, a critical question that has significant clinical and fundamental implications remains to be answered: “How can memory be optimized?” This ...

This PhD research in the arts analyses the role of documentary cinema in the creation of 'prosthetic memories': the ways in which persons 'remember' events they have not personally experienced. My research focuses on prosthetic memories of WWII in Post-Soviet society through cinema and proposes a novel theoretical and practical framework for researching prosthetic memory through first- person documentaries (films in which the ...

Coding of serial order is a fundamental feature of both working memory and episodic memory. Both

types of memory require accurate maintenance of the order of events. In memory research there is

a strong tradition to investigate memory separately for short and long time intervals [1]. As a

consequence, the literatures on serial order coding in working memory and episodic memory

developed largely ...

All animals rely on learning and memory for survival. We aim at delivering a much-needed understanding on how neuropeptide signaling in the brain influences long-term memory. Neuropeptides are small regulatory proteins that are implicated in a variety of biological processes, including learning and memory. Our hypothesis is that neuropeptides are not only key regulators of learned behaviors, but also of long-term memory processes. We recently ...

Intentional forgetting has been linked to victims of sexual abuse who attempt to (i) try to forget the abuse, (ii) not think about the abuse, or (iii) even falsely deny the abuse. However, despite intentionally forgetting, people are also prone to falsely remember such events. In this regard, for instance, an alleged victim falsely remembering being abused can accuse an innocent person leading to wrongful convictions. At this moment, there is ...

BACKGROUND As the demand for faster, smaller, and more power-efficient devices is increasing, conventional memories such as SRAM and DRAM are reaching their scaling limits. Recently, STT-MRAM (spin transfer torque magnetic randomaccess memory) has been successfully introduced as a compelling candidate for on-chip memory applications. This first success calls for further explorations of other spintronics concepts. Alternative ...

Memory is a fundamental capacity that is intimately linked to our daily activities and underlies our identity, knowledge as well as our motor skills. The study of the motor memory system in particular is crucial as performance of previously memorized motor skills, as well as the learning of new ones, underlies the successful execution of daily living activities. Important discoveries over the last decades have greatly enhanced our ...