Professor Simon Hanslmayr

Professor (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging)

email: Simon.Hanslmayr@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

Thoughts, feelings, or a face we attend to are produced by orchestrated neural firing patterns in distributed brain networks. Precise timing of this neural activity is required in order to represent information in brain networks, and to form lasting memories. Neural oscillations establish such precise timing, which is why I chose to investigate oscillations to understand how the brain implements cognition. To this end my research primarily focuses on attention and memory processes in healthy populations, but I am also interested in how these processes are affected in clinical populations, like patients suffering from Schizophrenia or Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder (PTSD). In order to study neural oscillations in humans my lab uses a broad array of electrophysiological and imaging methods from the global scale, such as EEG/MEG, fMRI, combined EEG-fMRI, to the local scale such as intracranial EEG and single unit recordings in humans. Going beyond correlating oscillations with cognition, we also study the causal role of oscillations by externally perturbing the brain via rhythmic sensory stimulation (i.e. flickering or amplitude modulated sounds), rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) and investigate the impact of such oscillatory perturbations on cognition. Finally, we integrate the findings of both data streams (i.e. correlative and causal) via computational models. These models make specific predictions which we test in correlational and causal experiments. My aim with this multidisciplinary, multimodal and multiscale approach is to draw a detailed picture of how the human brain perceives, stores and retrieves information.

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2023

Kolibius, L. D. et al. (2023) Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans. Nature Human Behaviour, (doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01706-6) (PMID:37798368) (Early Online Publication)

Wang, D., Shapiro, K. L. and Hanslmayr, S. (2023) Altering stimulus timing via fast rhythmic sensory stimulation induces STDP-like recall performance in human episodic memory. Current Biology, 33(15), pp. 3279-3288. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.062) (PMID:37463586)

Wang, D., Parish, G., Shapiro, K. L. and Hanslmayr, S. (2023) Interaction between theta phase and spike timing-dependent plasticity simulates theta-induced memory effects. eNeuro, 10(3), ENEURO.0333-22.2023. (doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0333-22.2023) (PMID:36810147) (PMCID:PMC10012328)

2022

Roux, F. et al. (2022) Oscillations support short latency co-firing of neurons during human episodic memory formation. eLife, 11, e78109. (doi: 10.7554/elife.78109) (PMID:36448671) (PMCID:PMC9731574)

van Bree, S., Melcón, M., Kolibius, L. D., Kerrén, C., Wimber, M. and Hanslmayr, S. (2022) The Brain Time Toolbox, a software library to retune electrophysiology data to brain dynamics. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(10), pp. 1430-1439. (doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01386-8) (PMID:35726055)

Griffiths, B. J., Zaehle, T., Repplinger, S., Schmitt, F. C., Voges, J., Hanslmayr, S. and Staudigl, T. (2022) Rhythmic interactions between the mediodorsal thalamus and prefrontal cortex precede human visual perception. Nature Communications, 13, 3736. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31407-z) (PMID:35768419) (PMCID:PMC9243108)

2021

Treder, M. S. et al. (2021) The hippocampus as the switchboard between perception and memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(50), e211417111. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2114171118)

ter Wal, M. et al. (2021) Theta rhythmicity governs human behavior and hippocampal signals during memory-dependent tasks. Nature Communications, 12, 7048. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27323-3)

Griffiths, B. J., Martín-Buro, M. C., Staresina, B. P. and Hanslmayr, S. (2021) Disentangling neocortical alpha/beta and hippocampal theta/gamma oscillations in human episodic memory formation. NeuroImage, 242, 118454. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118454) (PMID:34358658)

Meconi, F., Linde-Domingo, J., Ferreira, C. S., Michelmann, S., Staresina, B., Apperly, I. A. and Hanslmayr, S. (2021) EEG and fMRI evidence for autobiographical memory reactivation in empathy. Human Brain Mapping, 42(14), pp. 4448-4464. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.25557) (PMID:34121270) (PMCID:PMC8410563)

van der Plas, M. , Braun, V., Stauch, B. and Hanslmayr, S. (2021) Stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with slow rTMS enhances verbal memory formation. PLoS Biology, 19(9), e3001363. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001363) (PMID:34582432) (PMCID:PMC8478201)

Parish, G., Michelmann, S., Hanslmayr, S. and Bowman, H. (2021) The Sync-Fire/deSync Model: modelling the reactivation of dynamic memories from cortical alpha oscillations. Neuropsychologia, 158, 107867. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107867) (PMID:33905757)

Chen, Q., Wang, D., Shapiro, K. and Hanslmayr, S. (2021) Using fast visual rhythmic stimulation to control inter-hemispheric phase offsets in visual areas. Neuropsychologia, 157, 107863. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107863) (PMID:33872643)

Griffiths, B., Martin-Buro, M. C., Staresina, B., Hanslmayr, S. and Staudigl, T. (2021) Alpha/beta power decreases during episodic memory formation predict the magnitude of alpha/beta power decreases during subsequent retrieval. Neuropsychologia, 153, 107755. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107755) (PMID:33515568)

Biau, E., Wang, D., Park, H. , Jensen, O. and Hanslmayr, S. (2021) Auditory detection is modulated by theta phase of silent lip movements. Current Research in Neurobiology, 2, 100014. (doi: 10.1016/j.crneur.2021.100014)

2020

Hanslmayr, S. , Starsina, B. and Jensen, O. (2020) Oscillatory brain mechanisms for memory formation – online and offline processes. In: Kahana, M. and Wagner, A. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Human Memory. Oxford University Press. (In Press)

van der Plas, M. and Hanslmayr, S. (2020) Entraining neurons via noninvasive electric stimulation improves cognition. PLoS Biology, 18(10), e3000931. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000931) (PMID:33091011) (PMCID:PMC7654821)

van der Plas, M. , Wang, D., Brittain, J.-S. and Hanslmayr, S. (2020) Investigating the role of phase-synchrony during encoding of episodic memories using electrical stimulation. Cortex, 133, pp. 37-47. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.006) (PMID:33099074)

Verguts, T., Stauch, B. J., Braun, V. and Hanslmayr, S. (2020) Probing the causal involvement of dlPFC in directed forgetting using rTMS—A replication study. PLoS ONE, 15(8), e0236287. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236287) (PMID:32785218) (PMCID:PMC7423109)

2019

Griffiths, B. J., Mayhew, S. D., Mullinger, K. J., Jorge, J., Charest, I., Wimber, M. and Hanslmayr, S. (2019) Alpha/beta power decreases track the fidelity of stimulus-specific information. eLife, 8, e49562. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.49562) (PMID:31782730) (PMCID:PMC6904219)

Griffiths, B. J. et al. (2019) Directional coupling of slow and fast hippocampal gamma with neocortical alpha/beta oscillations in human episodic memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(43), pp. 21834-21842. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914180116) (PMID:31597741) (PMCID:PMC6815125)

Fellner, M.-C., Gollwitzer, S., Rampp, S., Kreiselmeyr, G., Bush, D., Diehl, B., Axmacher, N., Hamer, H. and Hanslmayr, S. (2019) Spectral fingerprints or spectral tilt? Evidence for distinct oscillatory signatures of memory formation. PLoS Biology, 17(7), e3000403. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000403) (PMID:31356598) (PMCID:PMC6687190)

Michelmann, S., Staresina, B. P., Bowman, H. and Hanslmayr, S. (2019) Speed of time-compressed forward replay flexibly changes in human episodic memory. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(2), pp. 143-154. (doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0491-4) (PMID:30944439)

2018

Kerrén, C., Linde-Domingo, J., Hanslmayr, S. and Wimber, M. (2018) An optimal oscillatory phase for pattern reactivation during memory retrieval. Current Biology, 28(21), 3383-3392.e6. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.065) (PMID:30344116)

Michelmann, S., Bowman, H. and Hanslmayr, S. (2018) Replay of stimulus-specific temporal patterns during associative memory formation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(11), pp. 1577-1589. (doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01304) (PMID:30004850)

Oehrn, C. R., Fell, J., Baumann, C., Rosburg, T., Ludowig, E., Kessler, H., Hanslmayr, S. and Axmacher, N. (2018) Direct electrophysiological evidence for prefrontal control of hippocampal processing during voluntary forgetting. Current Biology, 28(18), 3016-3022.e4. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.042) (PMID:30197086)

Waldhauser, G. T., Dahl, M. J., Ruf-Leuschner, M., Müller-Bamouh, V., Schauer, M., Axmacher, N., Elbert, T. and Hanslmayr, S. (2018) The neural dynamics of deficient memory control in heavily traumatized refugees. Scientific Reports, 8, 13132. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31400-x) (PMID:30177846) (PMCID:PMC6120867)

Michelmann, S. et al. (2018) Data-driven re-referencing of intracranial EEG based on independent component analysis (ICA). Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 307, pp. 125-137. (doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.06.021) (PMID:29960028)

Wang, D., Clouter, A., Chen, Q., Shapiro, K. L. and Hanslmayr, S. (2018) Single-trial phase entrainment of theta oscillations in sensory regions predicts human associative memory performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(28), pp. 6299-6309. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0349-18.2018) (PMID:29899027) (PMCID:PMC6596103)

Parish, G., Hanslmayr, S. and Bowman, H. (2018) The Sync/deSync model: how a synchronized hippocampus and a desynchronized neocortex code memories. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(14), pp. 3428-3440. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2561-17.2018) (PMID:29487122) (PMCID:PMC6596040)

Westner, B. U., Dalal, S. S., Hanslmayr, S. and Staudigl, T. (2018) Across-subjects classification of stimulus modality from human MEG high frequency activity. PLoS Computational Biology, 14(3), e1005938. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005938) (PMID:29529062) (PMCID:PMC5864083)

2017

Shapiro, K. L., Hanslmayr, S. , Enns, J. T. and Lleras, A. (2017) Alpha, beta: the rhythm of the attentional blink. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24(6), pp. 1862-1869. (doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1257-0) (PMID:28271390)

Clouter, A., Shapiro, K. L. and Hanslmayr, S. (2017) Theta phase synchronization is the glue that binds human associative memory. Current Biology, 27(20), 3143-3148.e6. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.001) (PMID:28988860)

Braun, V., Sokoliuk, R. and Hanslmayr, S. (2017) On the effectiveness of event-related beta tACS on episodic memory formation and motor cortex excitability. Brain Stimulation, 10(5), pp. 910-918. (doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2017.04.129) (PMID:28528736)

2016

Fellner, M.-C., Volberg, G., Wimber, M. , Goldhacker, M., Greenlee, M. W. and Hanslmayr, S. (2016) Spatial mnemonic encoding: theta power decreases and medial temporal lobe BOLD increases co-occur during the usage of the method of loci. eNeuro, 3(6), (doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0184-16.2016) (PMID:28101523) (PMCID:PMC5223054)

Griffiths, B., Mazaheri, A., Debener, S. and Hanslmayr, S. (2016) Brain oscillations track the formation of episodic memories in the real world. NeuroImage, 143, pp. 256-266. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.09.021) (PMID:27622395)

Stonkus, R., Braun, V., Kerlin, J. R., Volberg, G. and Hanslmayr, S. (2016) Probing the causal role of prestimulus interregional synchrony for perceptual integration via tACS. Scientific Reports, 6, 32065. (doi: 10.1038/srep32065) (PMID:27616188) (PMCID:PMC5018857)

Jensen, O., Michelmann, S., Bowman, H. and Hanslmayr, S. (2016) The temporal signature of memories: identification of a general mechanism for dynamic memory replay in humans. PLoS Biology, 14(8), e1002528. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002528) (PMID:27494601) (PMCID:PMC4975452)

Fellner, M.-C., Volberg, G., Mullinger, K.J., Goldhacker, M., Wimber, M. , Greenlee, M.W. and Hanslmayr, S. (2016) Spurious correlations in simultaneous EEG-fMRI driven by in-scanner movement. NeuroImage, 133, pp. 354-366. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.031) (PMID:27012498)

Backus, A. R., Schoffelen, J.-M., Szebényi, S., Hanslmayr, S. and Doeller, C. F. (2016) Hippocampal-prefrontal theta oscillations support memory integration. Current Biology, 26(4), pp. 450-457. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.048) (PMID:26832442)

Meconi, F., Anderl-Straub, S., Raum, H., Landgrebe, M., Langguth, B., Bäuml, K.-H. T. and Hanslmayr, S. (2016) Aberrant prefrontal beta oscillations predict episodic memory encoding deficits in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 12, pp. 499-505. (doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.08.017) (PMID:27668176) (PMCID:PMC5026693)

Waldhauser, G. T., Braun, V. and Hanslmayr, S. (2016) Episodic memory retrieval functionally relies on very rapid reactivation of sensory information. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(1), pp. 251-260. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2101-15.2016) (PMID:26740665) (PMCID:PMC6601789)

2015

Waldhauser, G. T., Bäuml, K.-H. T. and Hanslmayr, S. (2015) Brain oscillations mediate successful suppression of unwanted memories. Cerebral Cortex, 25(11), pp. 4180-4190. (doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu138) (PMID:24962991)

Oehrn, C. R., Baumann, C., Fell, J., Lee, H., Kessler, H., Habel, U., Hanslmayr, S. and Axmacher, N. (2015) Human hippocampal dynamics during response conflict. Current Biology, 25(17), pp. 2307-2313. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.032) (PMID:26299515)

Staudigl, T., Vollmar, C., Noachtar, S. and Hanslmayr, S. (2015) Temporal-pattern similarity analysis reveals the beneficial and detrimental effects of context reinstatement on human memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(13), pp. 5373-5384. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4198-14.2015) (PMID:25834061) (PMCID:PMC6705404)

2014

Al-Baddai, S., Al-Subari, K., Tomé, A.M., Volberg, G., Hanslmayr, S. , Hammwöhner, R. and Lang, E.W. (2014) Bidimensional ensemble empirical mode decomposition of functional biomedical images taken during a contour integration task. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 13, pp. 218-236. (doi: 10.1016/j.bspc.2014.04.011)

Oehrn, C. R., Hanslmayr, S. , Fell, J., Deuker, L., Kremers, N. A., Do Lam, A. T., Elger, C. E. and Axmacher, N. (2014) Neural communication patterns underlying conflict detection, resolution, and adaptation. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(31), pp. 10438-10452. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3099-13.2014) (PMID:25080602) (PMCID:PMC6608272)

Hanslmayr, S. , Matuschek, J. and Fellner, M.-C. (2014) Entrainment of prefrontal beta oscillations induces an endogenous echo and impairs memory formation. Current Biology, 24(8), pp. 904-909. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.007) (PMID:24684933)

Ferreira, C. S., Marful, A., Staudigl, T., Bajo, T. and Hanslmayr, S. (2014) Medial prefrontal theta oscillations track the time course of interference during selective memory retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(4), pp. 777-791. (doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00523) (PMID:24236766)

2013

Hanslmayr, S. , Volberg, G., Wimber, M. , Dalal, S. S. and Greenlee, M. W. (2013) Prestimulus oscillatory phase at 7 Hz gates cortical information flow and visual perception. Current Biology, 23(22), pp. 2273-2278. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.020) (PMID:24184106)

2012

Hanslmayr, S. , Volberg, G., Wimber, M. , Oehler, N., Staudigl, T., Hartmann, T., Raabe, M., Greenlee, M. W. and Bäuml, K.-H. T. (2012) Prefrontally driven downregulation of neural synchrony mediates goal-directed forgetting. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(42), pp. 14742-14751. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1777-12.2012) (PMID:23077059) (PMCID:PMC6621432)

Wimber, M. , Maaß, A., Staudigl, T., Richardson-Klavehn, A. and Hanslmayr, S. (2012) Rapid memory reactivation revealed by oscillatory entrainment. Current Biology, 22(16), pp. 1482-1486. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.05.054) (PMID:22795695)

2011

Hanslmayr, S. , Volberg, G., Wimber, M. , Raabe, M., Greenlee, M. W. and Bäuml, K.-H. T. (2011) The relationship between brain oscillations and BOLD signal during memory formation: a combined EEG-fMRI study. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(44), pp. 15674-15680. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3140-11.2011) (PMID:22049410) (PMCID:PMC6623030)

2008

Hanslmayr, S. , Pastötter, B., Bäuml, K.-H., Gruber, S., Wimber, M. and Klimesch, W. (2008) The electrophysiological dynamics of interference during the Stroop task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(2), pp. 215-225. (doi: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20020) (PMID:18275330)

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Kolibius, L. D. et al. (2023) Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans. Nature Human Behaviour, (doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01706-6) (PMID:37798368) (Early Online Publication)

ter Wal, M. et al. (2021) Theta rhythmicity governs human behavior and hippocampal signals during memory-dependent tasks. Nature Communications, 12, 7048. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27323-3)

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

Neural oscillations - a code for memory
European Commission
2020 - 2021
TIME - GLUING CROSS-MODAL MEMORIES VIA SYNCHRONISATION
Economic and Social Research Council
2020 - 2022

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Supervised Postgraduate Students

Li Cheng (Postgraduate)
Linda Hakajova (Non Ψ Postgraduate)
Luca Kolibius (Postgraduate)
Eleonora Marcantoni (Postgraduate)
Arash Naderi (Visiting Postgraduate)
Sander van Bree (Postgraduate)

Research Assistants

Qiaoyu Chen (Affiliate)
Jacqueline McDiarmid (Research Assistant)
Arash Naderi (Affiliate)
Marije ter Wal (Research Fellow/Affiliate)
Danying Wang (Affiliate)

Visiting Collaborators

Negin Ghahremani arekhloo (External Collaborator)
Gernot Kreiselmeyer (External Collaborator)

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