Main research interests

• Development of learning and memory
• The role of sleep and stress for early cognition
• Maternal well-being and infant development
• The role of sleep in early human development; early aversive experiences and their consequences across the lifespan; infant and child development in the social world; developmental psychopatholo

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, 112, 1625-1629. doi: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, 112, 12882-12886. doi:10.1073/pnas.1508345112

Seehagen, S., Bartnick, C., Kärtner, J., Krasko, J., Luhmann, M., Schaal, N., Schneider, S., Witt, S., & Zmyj, N. (2025). Belong, broaden, and build: The role of positive emotions in early human development. Child Development Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.70002

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

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, 1411-1421. https://doi:10.1017/S0954579418000883