Marit Petzka

Marit Petzka

School of Psychology
Doctoral Researcher

Contact details

Address
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

The ability to remember experiences and past events is substantially supported by consolidation processes during sleep. The broad question Marit is working on is what happens in the human brain during offline periods when fragile episodic memory traces become stable representations. Her PhD project aims to further investigate consolidation processes and specify the functional significance of fast sleep spindles and slow oscillations for episodic memory formation using EEG.

Qualifications

  • BSc in Psychology at the University of Salzburg, Austria
  • MSc in Psychology at the University of Vienna, Austria

Doctoral research

Supervisor
Dr George Balanos