Furman Sleep Lab

04/10/2024

Great time at the at the iMAGINE Upstate STEAM Festival in downtown Greenville Saturday!

08/17/2023

Could zoning out for just a few seconds here and there improve your memory? A new paper from the Furman Sleep Lab says “Yes!”.

Featuring co-authors Meagan Collins (’19), Hannah Gibson (’20), Piper Powell (’20), and Madison Arora (’20).

Abstract. Traditionally, neuroscience and psychology have studied the human brain during periods of “online” attention to the environment, while participants actively engage in processing sensory stimuli. However, emerging evidence shows that the waking brain also intermittently enters an “off...

09/29/2022

Go Bridget! Can't wait to see the results of her Furman Fellows project on sleep and memory in ADHD.

Each year, five seniors are recognized as Furman Fellows and receive a scholarship to use toward the completion of their degree.

06/18/2022

Only 1.5 decades late to the game, Dr. Wamsley got a Twitter account. Follow her here: twitter.com/WamsleyLab

06/13/2022

New paper just out!

https://rdcu.be/cPyNM

03/24/2022

Looking to earn class credit and improve your research skills? Well Dr.Wamsley’s MayX course is a great way to do so!

Work in the Furman Sleep Lab this May to learn more about sleep and general research methodology. You’ll also get to work hands on with cool technology such as EEGs!

Registration for the class is still open! Contact the sleep lab if you have any questions ([email protected])

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03/23/2022

Check out Dr. Wamsley's latest publication

Memories of the past help us adaptively respond to similar situations in the future. Originally described by Schacter & Addis in 2007, the “constructive episodic simulation” hypothesis proposes that waking thought combines fragments of various past episodes into imagined simulations of events th...

02/02/2022

Ever wonder why we dream? Join Dr.Wamsley on the Knowable Podcast and learn about the science of dreaming.

PODCAST: We have thoughts, visions and feelings while we sleep, experiencing a virtual reality of sorts. But how and why does dreaming happen? Researchers bring us closer to understanding the work our brains do while our bodies rest. (Season 2/Episode 1)

11/03/2021

Checkout this new article about sleep in the New York Times where Dr.Wamsley and the Sleep Lab are featured!

All around the world, the pandemic provoked strange nocturnal visions. Can they help shed light on the age-old question of why we dream at all?

10/29/2021

Dreaming helps our minds anticipate future events based on previous experiences.