Sarah F. Schoch
All about that Sleep Research, Infant Development, Dream Research, Open Science, and Psychology.
Sarah F. Schoch is a post-doctoral student in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Zurich. She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Zurich. Sarah is studying how sleep and the gut microbiome develop in the first year of life in a large longitudinal study. She is additionally interested in improving research methodology (e.g. actigraphy) and the scientific process. Starting in 2021, she will work on her post-doc project in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In her free time, Sarah enjoys dancing, baking and playing board and video games.
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More about the research
Everyone sleeps. Most people dream, even though they might forget about the dreams when they wake up. And everyone has to go to the toilet at some point. These are universal experiences that connect every human being since we first descended from the trees. That's why I'm researching sleep, dreams and the connection to gut bacteria, especially in infants, where there hasn't been done much research.
A list of things I’ve done
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Vision for what I ultimately want to achieve
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Publications
DOIs
- Which Are the Central Aspects of Infant Sleep? The Dynamics of Sleep Composites across Infancy DOI: 10.3390/s20247188
- Which are the central aspects of infant sleep? The dynamic of sleep composites across infancy DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.26.354803
- Actigraphy in sleep research with infants and young children: Current practices and future benefits of standardized reporting DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13134
- Spatio-temporal properties of sleep slow waves and implications for development DOI: 10.1016/j.cophys.2020.01.007
- Actimetry in infant sleep research: an approach to facilitate comparability DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz083
- Across-night dynamics in traveling sleep slow waves throughout childhood DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsy165
- The effect of dream report collection and dream incorporation on memory consolidation during sleep. DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12754
- Modulating influences of memory strength and sensitivity of the retrieval test on the detectability of the sleep consolidation effect. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.10.009
- Dysregulation of Sleep Behavioral States in Narcolepsy DOI: 10.5167/uzh-141399
- A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect DOI: 10.1177/1745691616652873
- Multi-domain training in healthy old age: Hotel Plastisse as an iPad-based serious game to systematically compare multi-domain and single-domain training DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00137
Contact me
I'm open for interviews! Be it about Science, Open Science, Sleep Research, Dreams, Infant Development or any of the other areas I study.
Please enquire at hello@sfschoch.ch.
Beyond Science
In my free time, I love sending and receiving postcards from all over the world, having sent and received over 900 postcards.
I also do Zumba and spend time with my two cats and partner at home or in the garden. Reading, baking and playing some video games are also on the list of my hobbies. Also, there's not many escape rooms I haven't tried yet nor many Netflix shows I haven't at least tried out.
I'm very interested in space exploration and all things related. I had the chance to visit the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston as well as the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California 🚀
And as a sleep researcher, of course I do like sleeping and taking the occasional nap.
