Project
Ontogenesis of memory consolidation: From remembering regularities to specifics
Memories of experienced events in the first years of life tend to be fragile and short-lived as illustrated by the phenomenon of childhood amnesia, the inability to retrieve experienced events in detail during early childhood. However, over time, the ability and the underlying neural substrates to form, retain, and retrieve memories develop. At the same time, humans are equipped early on, even as infants, with basic learning mechanisms such as statistical learning to internalize regularities in the environment. Such basic learning mechanisms allow the immature brain to streamline and integrate the large amount of information infants receive from the environment with existing representations, by focusing on experiences that are regular and recurring. This early form of learning is also postulated to scaffold the development of schema knowledge and memory consolidation. However, direct longitudinal evidence for such postulations is lacking. In this subproject, we propose to measure statistical learning and its neural correlates in neonates longitudinally over time and relate statistical learning to episodic memory functioning at 1 year of age. Because of the crucial role that sleep plays for infant brain development, we will study the role of sleep on these developmental processes, focusing on regions and networks that are important for memory. Taken together, in this funding period, we plan to study how learning and memory processes develop in infants during the first year of life, which is the developmental period of most rapid brain maturation. This builds upon and extends beyond our project from the first funding period that focused on developmental maturational changes during middle childhood that underlie successful memory consolidation. We expect to gain insights into the dynamics of system-level memory consolidation by examining structural and functional neural integrity across time, focusing on the development of hippocampal–cortical networks underlying memory for regularities and specifics.
Image Experimental logo. Courtesy of B04 members
Team
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Prof Dr Claudia Buß
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Head, Prenatal Stress Research Group - Institute of Medical Psychology
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Prof Dr Yee Lee Shing
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Head, Lifespan Cognitive and Brain Development (LISCO) Lab
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Prof Dr Angela Kaindl
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Head SPZ; Director Pedriatrics, Division of Neurology - B04-Associated PI
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Dr Katharina Pittner
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 Postdoc
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Franziska Gronow
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 PhD
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Johannes Julius Mohn
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin & Max Planck School of Cognition
B04 PhD
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Iryna Schommartz
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
B04 Associate PhD
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Valentina Pittol Nercolini
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 Student helper
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Janna Pauline Dirks
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 Student helper
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Dr med Bernhard Weschke
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 Dr. Med. Alumnus
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Nina Wald de Chamorro
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 Assistenzärztin Alumna
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Annika Werwach
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 Alumna
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Philip Franz Lembcke
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 Alumnus
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Jule Friederike Schmitt
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Student helper 2019 - B04 Alumna
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Henriette Schütz
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
B04 Alumna
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Lydia Kautz
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Student helper 2020-2021 - B04 Alumna
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Judith Ramler
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Student helper 2020-2021 - B04 Alumna
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Friederike Wahle
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Student helper 2020-2021 - B04 Alumna
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Elena Vrazitulis
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Student helper 2020-2021 - B04 Alumna
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Max Niclot Porté
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Student helper 2019-2020 - B04 Alumnus
Publications
Hippocampus and striatum show distinct contributions to longitudinal changes in value-based learning in middle childhood
Johannes Falck, Lei Zhang, Laurel Raffington, Johannes Julius Mohn, Jochen Triesch, Christine Heim, Yee Lee Shing
eLife. 2;12:RP89483 (2024)
Sleep across the first year of life is prospectively associated with brain volume in 12-months old infants
Katharina Pittner, Jerod Rasmussen, Miranda M. Lim, John H. Gilmore, Martin Styner, Sonja Entringer, Pathik D. Wadhwa, Claudia Buss
Neurobiol Sleep Circadian Rhythms. 14:100091 (2023)
Not What U Expect: Effects of Prediction Errors on Item Memory
Javier Ortiz-Tudela, Sophie Nolden, Francesco Pupillo, Isabelle Ehrlich, Iryna Schommartz, Gözem Turan, Yee Lee Shing
J Exp Psychol Gen. 152(8), 2160–2176 (2023)
Primidone improves symptoms in TRPM3-linked developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with spike-and-wave activation in sleep
Lena-Luise Becker, Denise Horn, Felix Boschann, Evelien Van Hoeymissen, Thomas Voets, Joris Vriens, Christine Prager, Angela M. Kaindl
Epilepsia. 2023;64:e61–e68. (2023)
Neural Correlates and Reinstatement of Recent and Remote Memory: A Comparison Between Children and Young Adults
Iryna Schommartz, Philip F. Lembcke, Javier Ortiz-Tudela, M. Bauer, Angela M. Kaindl, Claudia Buss, Yee Lee Shing
eLife. 12:RP89908 (2023)
Short- and Long-Delay Consolidation of Memory Accessibility and Precision across Childhood and Young Adulthood
Iryna Schommartz, Angela M. Kaindl, Claudia Buss, Yee Lee Shing
Developmental Psychology (2024)
The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions
Francesco Pupillo, Javier Ortiz-Tudela, Rasmus Bruckner & Yee Lee Shing
npj Sci. Learn. 8:18 (2023)
From generating to violating predictions: The effects of prediction error on episodic memory
Gözem Turan, Isabelle Ehrlich, Yee Lee Shing and Sophie Nolden
PsyArXiv Preprints | V1 Last edited: January 14, 2023
Distinct multivariate structural brain profiles are related to variations in short- and long-delay memory consolidation across children and young adults
Iryna Schommartz, Philip F. Lembcke, Francesco Pupillo, Henriette Schuetz, Nina Wald de Chamorro, Martin Bauer, Angela M. Kaindl, Claudia Buss, Yee Lee Shing
Dev Cogn Neurosci. 59: 101192 (2023)
Concurrent contextual and time-distant mnemonic information co-exist as feedback in the human visual cortex
Javier Ortiz-Tudela, Johanna Bergmann, Matthew Bennett, Isabelle Ehrlich, Lars Muckli, Yee Lee Shing
NeuroImage 265:119778 (2023)
Longitudinal developmental trajectories do not follow cross-sectional age associations in hippocampal subfield and memory development
Attila Keresztes, Laurel Raffington, Andrew R. Bender, Katharina Bögl, Christine Heim and Yee Lee Shing
Dev Cogn Neurosci. 54:101085 (2022)
Disentangling age and schooling effects on inhibitory control development: An fNIRS investigation
Courtney McKay, Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar, Eva Rafetseder, Yee Lee Shing
Dev Sci. 2021;e13205 (2021)
Neural correlates of successful memory encoding in kindergarten and early elementary school children: Longitudinal trends and effects of schooling
Sophie Nolden, Garvin Brod, Ann-Kristin Meyer, Yana Fandakova, Yee Lee Shing
Cereb Cortex. 31(8):3764-3779 (2021)
From learning to remembering: How memory consolidation differs in term and preterm born children from young adults
Iryna Schommartz, Philip F. Lembcke, Henriette Schuetz, Nina Wald de Chamorro, Martin Bauer, Angela M. Kaindl, Claudia Buss, Yee Lee Shing
bioRxiv (2021)
Epilepsy in children with perinatal arterial ischemic stroke
Fabienne Kühne, Alexander Jungbluth, Joanna Schneider, Christoph Bührer, Christine Prager, Angela M. Kaindl
medRxiv
Clinical outcome of children with corpus callosum agenesis
Vera Raile, Nina A Herz, Gabriel Promnitz, Joanna Schneider, Anna Tietze, Angela M Kaindl
Pediatric Neurology
The clinical-phenotype continuum in DYNC1H1-related disorders-genomic profiling and proposal for a novel classification
Lena-Luise Becker, Hormos Salimi Dafsari, Jens Schallner, Dalia Abdin, Michael Seifert, Florence Petit, Thomas Smol, Levinus Bok, Lance Rodan, Ingrid Krapels, Stephanie Spranger, Bernhard Weschke, Katherine Johnson, Volker Straub, Angela M Kaindl, Nataliya Di Donato, Maja von der Hagen, Sebahattin Cirak
J Hum Genet. 65(11):1003-1017 (2020)
Congenital microcephaly-linked CDK5RAP2 affects eye development
Sami Zaqout, Ethiraj Ravindran, Gisela Stoltenburg‐Didinger and Angela M Kaindl
Ann Hum Genet. 84(1):87-91 (2020)
Early onset, long illness duration, epilepsy type, and polypharmacy have an adverse affect on psychosocial outcome in children with epilepsy
Valeria Valova, Aleksandra Kochan, Bianca Werry, Rainer John, Christine Prager, Joanna Schneider and Angela M Kaindl
Neuropediatrics. 51(2):164-169 (2020)
Effects of stress on 6- and 7-year-old children’s emotional memory differs by gender
Laurel Raffington, Johanne Falck, Christine Heim, Mara Mather and Yee Lee Shing
J Exp Child Psychol. 199:104924 (2020)
Neonatal hippocampal volume moderates the effects of early postnatal enrichment on cognitive development
Judith Overfeld, Sonja Entringer, Jerod M Rasmussen, Christine M Heim, Martin A Styner, John H Gilmore, Pathik D Wadhwab and Claudia Buss
Dev Cogn Neurosci. 45:100820 (2020)
MN1 C-terminal truncation syndrome is a novel neurodevelopmental and craniofacial disorder with partial rhombencephalosynapsis
Christopher C Y Mak, Dan Doherty, Angela E Lin, Nancy Vegas, Megan T Cho, Géraldine Viot, Clémantine Dimartino, James D Weisfeld-Adams, Davor Lessel, Shelagh Joss ... et al
Brain. 143(1): 55–68 (2020)
Just expect it: Compound heterozygous variants of PIMT1 in a consanguineous family – the role of next generation sequencing in neuromuscular disorders
Maja von der Hagen, Lena-Luise Becker, Thomas F. Wienker, Martin Smitka, Luciana Musante, Hans-Hilger Ropers, Angela Huebner, Hao Hu, Angela M. Kaindl
Neuropediatrics. 51(1):72-75 (2020)
Integrating across memory episodes: developmental trends
Yee Lee Shing , Carsten Finke, Martina Hoffmann, Anna Pajkert, Hauke R Heekeren and Christoph J Ploner
PLoS One. 14(4):e0215848 (2019)