Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

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UNDER REVIEW

• Jing Zhang*, Pin-Chun Chen*, Sara C. Mednick, Arielle Tambini (Revision) Slow Oscillations Modulate Functional Brain Changes Supporting Working Memory. bioRxiv; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.14.594161

• Anjana Subramoniam, Pin-Chun Chen, Negin Sattari, Sara Mednick, Lauren Whitehurst (Revision) Physiological sleep correlates of positive and negative affect in younger and older adults. Sleep

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Pin-Chun Chen, Jenny Stritzelberger, Katrin Walther, Hajo Hamer, Bernhard Staresina (2025) Hippocampal ripples during offline periods predict motor sequence learning. Journal of Neuroscience

• Allison Morehouse, Katherine Simon, Pin-Chun Chen, Sara C. Mednick (2025) Heart Rate Variability During REM Sleep is Associated with Reduced Negative Memory Bias. Front. Behav. Neurosci

• Alessandra E. Shuster, Allison Morehouse, Elizabeth A. McDevitt, Pin-Chun Chen, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Jing Zhang, Negin Sattari, Tracy Uzoigwe, Ali Ekhlasi, Denise Cai, Katherine Simon, Niels Niethard, Sara C. Mednick (2025) REM Refines and Rescues Memory Representations: A New Theory. Sleep Advances.

• Alessandra Shuster, Pin-Chun Chen, Hamid Niknazar, Elizabeth McDevitt, Beth Lopour, and Sara Mednick. (2024) Novel Electrophysiological Signatures of Learning and Forgetting in Human REM Sleep. Journal of Neuroscience

• Pin-Chun Chen, Jing Zhang, Julian F. Thayer, and Sara C. Mednick. (2022) Understanding the roles of central and autonomic activity during sleep in the improvement of working memory and episodic memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

• Pin-Chun Chen, Katharine C. Simon, Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, and Sara C. Mednick. (2022) Autonomic Central Coupling during Daytime Sleep Differs between Older and Younger People. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 107646.

• Pin-Chun Chen, Hamid Niknazar, William A Alaynick, Lauren N. Whitehurst, and Sara C. Mednick (2021) Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(51), e2109339118.

• Pin-Chun Chen, Katharine N Simon, Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, and Sara C. Mednick (2022) Autonomic Central Coupling during Daytime Sleep Differs between Older and Younger People. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 107646.

• Pin-Chun Chen, Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, and Sara C. Mednick (2021) Age‐related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap. Psychophysiology, 58(7), e13701.

• Pin-Chun Chen*, Lauren N. Whitehurst*, Mohsen Naji, and Sara C. Mednick (2020) Autonomic activity during a daytime nap facilitates working memory improvement. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(10), 1963-1974.

• Pin-Chun Chen, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, and Sara C. Mednick (2020) Autonomic/central coupling benefits working memory in healthy young adults. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 173, 107267.

• Lauren N. Whitehurst, Pin-Chun Chen, Mohsen Naji, and Sara C. Mednick (2020) New directions in sleep and memory research: The role of autonomic activity. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 33, 17-24.

• Dong Joo Kim, Tze-An Yuan, Pin-Chun Chen, Feng Liu-Smith, Natasha Atanaskova Mesinkovska, Hege Grande Sarpa (2021) Pediatric melanoma in the Hispanic population: An analysis of institutional and national data. Pediatric Dermatology, 38(5), 1102-1110.

• Dong Joo Kim, Joy Makdisi, Christina Regan, Pin-Chun Chen, Elizabeth Chao, Adam M. Rotunda (2020) Reconstruction of distal nasal defects using free cartilage batten grafting with secondary intention healing: a retrospective case series of 129 patients. Dermatologic Surgery, 47(1), 86-93.