Research Directions
What We Investigate
Three interconnected frontiers at the boundary of sleep science and cognitive neuroscience.
Memory Editing During Human Sleep
Aversive memories are not read-only files permanently etched in the brain. Sleep provides the prime opportunity for the brain to update and rewire these experiences. Using targeted memory reactivation (TMR), we actively guide this nighttime editing process, selectively reshaping the emotional tone of specific memories while you sleep.
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Non-invasive Closed-loop Sleep BCI
The sleeping brain is a highly interactive cognitive state. We build non-invasive, closed-loop sleep BCIs that move beyond passive recording to enable real-time intervention. By tracking signature rhythms like slow oscillations and spindles with millisecond precision, we deliver phase-locked cues that directly modulate the brain's offline processing, effectively engineering sleep.
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Lucid Dreaming & Consciousness During Sleep
Conscious awareness is not lost during sleep but exists on a spectrum that peaks with lucid dreaming. This paradoxical state occurs when metacognitive awareness coexists with sleep. We leverage this unique phenomenon as a rigorous experimental model to study consciousness itself, probing the exact neural mechanisms that allow self-awareness to emerge from the sleeping brain.
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