About Dr. Svenja Brodt

Max Planck Research Group Leader

Svenja Brodt studied psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Saarland University and LMU Munich and completed her doctoral training at the University of Tübingen on the topic of imaging human rapid neocortical memory formation. As a postdoctoral researcher, she investigated the role of sleep for neocortical memory representations. For her work, Svenja was awarded the Biopsychology prize by the German Psychological Society as well as the Attempto prize by the Universitätsbund Tübingen. Since 2023, she is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics.

 

Key Publications

Brodt S*, Inostroza M*, Niethard N*, Born J (2023). Sleep – A brain state serving systems memory consolidation. Neuron, 111(7), 1050-1075. 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.03.005.

Niethard N, Brodt S, Born J (2021). Cell-Type-Specific Dynamics of Calcium Activity in Cortical Circuits over the Course of Slow-Wave Sleep and Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41(19), 4212–4222. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1957-20.2021.

Brodt S & Gais S (2020). Memory engrams in the neocortex. The Neuroscientist, 10.1177/1073858420941528.

Brodt S, Gais S, Beck J, Erb M, Scheffler K, Schönauer M (2018). Fast track to the neocortex: A memory engram in posterior parietal cortex. Science, 362. 1045-1048. 10.1126/science.aau2528.

Brodt S, Pöhlchen D, Flanagin VL, Glasauer S, Gais S, Schönauer M. (2016). Rapid and independent memory formation in the parietal cortex. PNAS, 113(46), 13251-13256. 10.1073/pnas.1605719113.