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Stephanie Kulke
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Psychology
James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences
Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Program
Director, Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, Mesulam Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center
Member, Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine
Member, Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology
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Areas of Focus
- Neuroscience
- Human memory
- Neural substrates of conscious experience
- Sleep and its benefits for memory, creativity and well-being
- Dreaming, lucid dreaming and contemplative practices during sleep
Work/Research
- Investigates human memory and the brain
- Explores the value of sleep for maintaining memories and related mental functions
- Investigates methods for presenting sounds during sleep to strengthen memories while avoiding sleep disruption
- Investigates how sleep benefits health and psychological well-being, and opportunities for enhancing those benefits
- Examines conscious memory experiences in contrast with ways we are unknowingly influenced by unconscious knowledge (as in intuition and implicit social bias)