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Jessica Payne

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Jessica Payne
Alma materUniversity of San Diego, B.A.

Mount Holyoke College, M.A.

University of Arizona, Ph.D
OccupationAssociate Professor of Psychology at University of Notre Dame

Jessica D. Payne is a psychologist and associate professor at the University of Notre Dame. Payne's research focuses on the impact of sleep and stress on human memory and psychological well-being.[1] Payne won the Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society in 2015.[2] Previously, she received the Laird Cermak Award for early contribution to memory research by the International Neuropsychological Society in 2010.[3] Payne has contributed her expertise on sleep to media outlets including New York Times, CNN, and Huffington Post.[4][5]

Biography

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Payne completed her B.A. degree in psychology (summa cum laude) in 1995 at the University of San Diego. She went to graduate school at Mount Holyoke College, where she obtained her M.A. in experimental psychology in 1999. She continued her education, receiving a PhD in psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Arizona in 2005, where she worked under the supervision of Lynn Nadel and focused on the effects of stress on memory.[6][7] Payne completed two postdoctoral fellowships (2005-2009), the first at the Harvard Medical School, where she worked under the supervision of Robert Stickgold, and the second at Harvard University, where she worked with Daniel Schacter and Robert Stickgold.[8][9]

Payne joined Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame in 2009, where she is the Nancy O'Neill Collegiate Chair in Psychology and Director of the Sleep, Stress, and Memory Lab. She serves on the neuroscience advisory board of the NeuroLeadership Institute[10] and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology; General.[11]

Research

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Payne's research focuses on how sleep and stress impact cognition, memory, and psychological functioning.[12] Several of her studies have examined memories of emotional events experienced under conditions of stress or sleep deprivation, which may be subject to distortion or false memory, due to the release of stress hormones.[6][7][13] When someone is sleep deprived and under stress, frontal lobe circuits may be compromised and the amygdala may become hyperactive, resulting in elevated levels of cortisol which impacts memory consolidation.[14][15]

Payne and her colleagues have explored how memory may be enhanced when individuals sleep shortly after encoding new information.[16] In one of their studies using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm,[8] volunteers learned a list of related words that they had to recall after a 12-hour delay. Half learned the list at 9 a.m. and were tested at 9 p.m. whereas the other half learned the list at 9 p.m. and were tested the following day at 9 a.m. after a night's sleep. Participants who had slept performed better at recalling the list than those who stayed awake. At the same time, those who slept were also more likely to experience false memories, i.e., they recalled words that were related in meaning to the items on the list but were not actually present. Such findings suggest that a creative synthesis of information may occur during sleep.

In other work, Payne and her colleagues examined the effect of sleep on relational memory defined as the "flexible ability to generalize across existing stores of information."[17] Participants learned pairs of premises with an embedded hierarchy and were tested on their ability to draw logical inferences based on the premises. Participants who slept prior to testing were better able to draw the inferences than participants who did not sleep, even though all groups showed accurate retention of the information contained in the premises.[17] Payne's research provides support for the view that unique properties of sleep are directly involved in declarative memory consolidation.[18] She suggests that incorporating a 20-minute nap each day would be beneficial for psychological and physical health, as it helps the brain to encode incoming information and may lead to higher levels of creativity.[5][19][20] Payne notes that it is important to limit naps to 20 minutes to avoid the risk of falling into a deep sleep and waking amidst slow-wave sleep. Naps are an effective way to compensate for sleep debt, i.e., the cumulative effect of not getting enough sleep. As alternative strategies to enhance brain activity. Payne suggests engaging in five-minute meditation exercises, engaging in diaphragmatic breathing, taking walks, and changing one's environmental surroundings.[14][21]

Representative publications

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  • Ellenbogen, J. M., Hu, P. T., Payne, J. D., Titone, D., & Walker, M. P. (2007). Human relational memory requires time and sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(18), 7723–7728.
  • Ellenbogen, J. M., Payne, J. D., & Stickgold, R. (2006). The role of sleep in declarative memory consolidation: passive, permissive, active or none?. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16(6), 716–722.
  • Payne, J. D., Stickgold, R., Swanberg, K., & Kensinger, E. A. (2008). Sleep preferentially enhances memory for emotional components of scenes. Psychological Science, 19(8), 781–788.
  • Payne, J., Jackson, E., Ryan, L., Hoscheidt, S., Jacobs, J., & Nadel, L. (2006). The impact of stress on neutral and emotional aspects of episodic memory. Memory, 14(1), 1–16.
  • Tamminen, J., Payne, J. D., Stickgold, R., Wamsley, E. J., & Gaskell, M. G. (2010). Sleep spindle activity is associated with the integration of new memories and existing knowledge. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(43), 14356–14360.

References

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  1. ^ "Jessica - Payne // Department of Psychology // University of Notre Dame". Department of Psychology. Archived from the original on 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  2. ^ "2015 Early Career Award Recipient - Psychonomic Society". www.psychonomic.org. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  3. ^ "Laird Cermak Award Winners" (PDF). International Neuropsychological Society.
  4. ^ Hoffman, Jan (13 March 2014). "To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them Sleep In". New York Times. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  5. ^ a b Ph.D, Jessica Payne (2015-11-03). "Sleep On It: Your Brain Never Takes a Night Off". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  6. ^ a b Payne, Jessica; Jackson, Eric; Ryan, Lee; Hoscheidt, Siobhan; Jacobs, Jake; Nadel, Lynn (2006-01-01). "The impact of stress on neutral and emotional aspects of episodic memory". Memory. 14 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1080/09658210500139176. ISSN 0965-8211. PMID 16423737. S2CID 2221162.
  7. ^ a b Payne, Jessica D.; Nadel, Lynn; Allen, John J. B.; Thomas, Kevin G. F.; Jacobs, W. Jake (2002-01-01). "The effects of experimentally induced stress on false recognition". Memory. 10 (1): 1–6. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.385.5108. doi:10.1080/09658210143000119. ISSN 0965-8211. PMID 11747571. S2CID 9278216.
  8. ^ a b Payne, Jessica D.; Schacter, Daniel L.; Propper, Ruth E.; Huang, Li-Wen; Wamsley, Erin J.; Tucker, Matthew A.; Walker, Matthew P.; Stickgold, Robert (2009). "The role of sleep in false memory formation". Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 92 (3): 327–334. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2009.03.007. PMC 2789473. PMID 19348959.
  9. ^ Payne, Jessica D.; Tucker, Matthew A.; Ellenbogen, Jeffrey M.; Wamsley, Erin J.; Walker, Matthew P.; Schacter, Daniel L.; Stickgold, Robert (2012-03-22). "Memory for Semantically Related and Unrelated Declarative Information: The Benefit of Sleep, the Cost of Wake". PLOS ONE. 7 (3): e33079. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...733079P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033079. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3310860. PMID 22457736.
  10. ^ "Education - NeuroLeadership Institute". neuroleadership.com. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  11. ^ "Journal of Experimental Psychology: General". Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  12. ^ "Meet Dr. Payne". Sleep, Stress, and Memory Lab. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  13. ^ Payne, Jessica D.; Jackson, Eric D.; Hoscheidt, Siobhan; Ryan, Lee; Jacobs, W. Jake; Nadel, Lynn (2007-12-01). "Stress administered prior to encoding impairs neutral but enhances emotional long-term episodic memories". Learning & Memory. 14 (12): 861–868. doi:10.1101/lm.743507. ISSN 1072-0502. PMC 2151024. PMID 18086830.
  14. ^ a b "Talking Sleep with Jessica Payne - Movius Consulting". www.moviusconsulting.com. 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  15. ^ Payne, Jessica D.; Kensinger, Elizabeth A. (2010-06-03). "Sleep Leads to Changes in the Emotional Memory Trace: Evidence from fMRI". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23 (6): 1285–1297. doi:10.1162/jocn.2010.21526. ISSN 0898-929X. PMID 20521852. S2CID 14653939.
  16. ^ Payne, Jessica D.; Stickgold, Robert; Swanberg, Kelley; Kensinger, Elizabeth A. (2008-08-01). "Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory for Emotional Components of Scenes". Psychological Science. 19 (8): 781–788. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02157.x. PMC 5846336. PMID 18816285.
  17. ^ a b Ellenbogen, Jeffrey M.; Hu, Peter T.; Payne, Jessica D.; Titone, Debra; Walker, Matthew P. (2007-05-01). "Human relational memory requires time and sleep". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (18): 7723–7728. doi:10.1073/pnas.0700094104. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1863467. PMID 17449637.
  18. ^ Ellenbogen, Jeffrey M; Payne, Jessica D; Stickgold, Robert (2006). "The role of sleep in declarative memory consolidation: passive, permissive, active or none?". Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 16 (6): 716–722. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2006.10.006. PMID 17085038. S2CID 15514443.
  19. ^ Restak, Richard (2009-04-30). Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance. Penguin. ISBN 9781101050453.
  20. ^ Dame, Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre. "Sleeping after processing new info most effective, new study shows". Notre Dame News. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  21. ^ "How Better Sleep Can Improve Leadership, Boost Productivity, and Spark Innovation". Center for Creative Leadership. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
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