Main research interests

• Development of learning and memory
• The role of sleep and stress for early cognition
• Maternal well-being and infant development

Selected publications

Seehagen, S., Konrad, C., Herbert, J. S., & Schneider, S. (2015). Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America / National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), 112(5), 1625–1629. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1414000112

Seehagen, S., Schneider, S., Rudolph, J., Ernst, S., & Zmyj, N. (2015). Stress impairs cognitive flexibility in infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America / National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), 112(41), 12882–12886. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508345112

Müller, D., Teismann, T., Hirschfeld, G., Zmyj, N., Fuths, S., Vocks, S., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2019). The course of maternal repetitive negative thinking at the transition to motherhood and early mother-infant interaction: Is there a link? Development and Psychopathology, 31(4), 1411-1421. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418000883

Schoppmann, J., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2019). Wait and See: Observational learning of distraction as an emotion regulation strategy in 22-month-old toddlers. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 851-863. https://doi: 10.1007/s10802-018-0486-7

Seehagen, S., Zmyj, N., & Herbert, J. (2019). Remembering in the context of internal states: The role of sleep for infant memory. Child Development Perspectives, 13, 110-115. https://doi:10.1111/cdep.12321

Seehagen, S., Schneider, S., Sommer, K., Rocca, L. L., & Konrad, C. (2021). State-dependent memory in infants. Child Development, 92(2), 578–585. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13444