Célia Lacaux

Function: Post-doctoral position in the “Sleep and Cognition Neuroimaging” Lab of Prof. Sophie Schwartz

Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences (University of Geneva)

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., Andrillon, T., Arnulf, I., & Oudiette, D. (2022). Memory loss at sleep onset. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 3(4), tgac042. 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, 7(50), eabj5866. 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, 30(12), 2411-2417. 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, 142(7), 1988-1999. 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

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Contact

Mail: celia.lacaux@unige.ch
Tel : +41 22 37 90 745
Department of Basic Neurosciences
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Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève