Claudia Picard-Deland

I am a postdoctoral researcher specializing in the neurophenomenology of sleep and dreaming. I was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to study dreams and sleep misperception in both healthy individuals and those with sleep disorders, using micro-phenomenology. I completed my PhD in neuroscience followed by a first postdoctoral fellowship in Montreal, where I investigated the relationships between dreaming and memory, how environmental factors shape dream content, as well as unique states of consciousness such as lucid dreaming. 

Selected publications

Picard-Deland, C., Bernardi, G., Genzel, L., Dresler, M., Schoch, S.F. (2023) Memory reactivations during sleep: a neural basis of dream experiences? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.02.006

Picard-Deland, C., Konkoly, K., Raider, R., Paller, K., Nielsen, T., Pigeon, W., Carr, M. (2022) The memory sources of dreams: a serial awakenings study across sleep stages and time of night. Sleep. zsac292. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsac292

Picard-Deland, C., Nielsen, T., Carr, M. (2021) Dreaming of the sleep lab. PloS One, 16(10), e0257738. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257738 

Picard-Deland, C. Aumont, T., Samson-Richer, A., Paquette, T., Nielsen, T. (2021) Whole-body procedural learning benefits from targeted memory reactivation in REM sleep and task-related dream reactivations. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 183, 107460. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107460

Science communication

Quand les rêves puisent dans nos souvenirs (La Presse)

De la réalité virtuelle au rêve (ACFAS)

Être pourchassé, perdre ses dents, tomber… Ce que la science dit des rêves récurrents (La Conversation)