Célia Lacaux
Function: Post-doctoral position — “Sleep & Cognition” Lab (Pr. Sophie Schwartz)
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences (UniGE)
Keywords: sleep, cognition, memory, creativity, dream
Short Biography
Célia Lacaux received her master’s degrees in Cognitive Neurosciences from Ecole Normale Supérieure and University College London. She then completed a PhD in 2021 at the Paris Brain Institute under the supervision of Dr. Delpine Oudiette and Pr. Isabelle Arnulf. She now has a postdoctoral position in the lab of Pr. Sophie Schwartz in Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses primarily on the impact of sleep on memory consolidation and creativity.
Key Publications
- Lacaux, C., Strauss, M., Bekinschtein, T. A., & Oudiette, D. (2024). Embracing sleep-onset complexity. Trends in Neurosciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2024.02.002
- Lacaux, C., Andrillon, T., Arnulf, I., & Oudiette, D. (2022). Memory loss at sleep onset. Cerebral Cortex Communications. https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgac042.
- Lacaux, C., Andrillon, T., Bastoul, C., Idir, Y., Fonteix-Galet, A., Arnulf, I., & Oudiette, D. (2021). Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj5866.
- Koroma, M., Lacaux, C., Andrillon, T., Legendre, G., Léger, D., & Kouider, S. (2020). Sleepers selectively suppress informative inputs during rapid eye movements. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.047.
- Lacaux, C., Izabelle, C., Santantonio, G., De Villèle, L., Frain, J., Lubart, T., Pizza, F., Plazzi, G., Arnulf, I., & Oudiette, D. (2019). Increased creative thinking in narcolepsy. Brain: A Journal of Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz137.
PhD Thesis
- Lacaux, Célia. The borderland between wakefulness and sleep, a doorway into creativity. https://theses.hal.science/tel-03541702v1/document
- Commentary: Lacaux, C. (2022). A doorway into possibility. Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade3129.
Media
- https://sleepsciencepodcast.buzzsprout.com/787211/episodes/16702701-s3e3-can-sleep-make-us-more-creative
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNOCHrUuBE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBtyYI_k-g4&t=1267s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgA0wUvDqfQ
- https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-science-cqfd/de-l-autre-cote-des-reves-4068273
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHeLwKqZjk8&t=376s
Contact
Mail: celia.lacaux@unige.ch
Tel: +41 22 37 90 745
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3959-235X
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/c%C3%A9lia-lacaux-a06b105b/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/celialacaux.bsky.social