Education & appointments

Fellowships, honors & awards

Peer-reviewed publications

1. Zhang, J., Chen, P-C., Mednick, S.C., Tambini, A. (accepted). Slow oscillations modulate functional brain changes supporting working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. PDF ↓
2. Gombert-Labedens, M., …, Zhang, J., …, Baker, F.C. (2024). Using wearable skin temperature data to advance tracking of the menstrual cycle in a real-world setting. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 39, 331–350. PDF ↓
3. Zhang, J., Pena, A., Delano, N., Sattari, N., Shuster, A.E., Baker, F.C., Simon, K., Mednick, S.C. (2024). Evidence of an active role of dreaming in emotional memory processing shows that we dream to forget. Scientific Reports, 14, 8722. PDF ↓
4. Onton, J.A., Simon, K.C., Morehouse, A.B., Shuster, A.E., Zhang, J., Peña, A.A., Mednick, S.C. (2024). Validation of spectral sleep scoring with polysomnography using forehead EEG device. Frontiers in Sleep, 3. PDF ↓
5. Shuster, A.E., Simon, K.C., Zhang, J., …, Mednick, S.C. (2023). Good sleep is a mood buffer for young women during menses. Sleep, zsad072. PDF ↓
6. Zhang, J., Whitehurst, L.N., Mednick, S.C. (2022). The role of sleep for episodic memory consolidation: stabilizing or rescuing? Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 107621. PDF ↓
7. McDevitt, E.A.†, Zhang, J.†, MacKenzie, K.J., Fiser, J., Mednick, S.C. (2022). The effect of interference, offline sleep, and wake on spatial statistical learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 193, 107650. PDF ↓
8. Chen, P-C.†, Zhang, J.†, Thayer, J.F., Mednick, S.C. (2022). Understanding the roles of central and autonomic activity during sleep in the improvement of working and episodic memory. PNAS, 119(44), e2123417119. PDF ↓
9. Alzueta, E., …, Zhang, J., …, Baker, F.C. (2022). Tracking sleep, temperature, heart rate, and daily symptoms across the menstrual cycle with the Oura Ring in healthy women. International Journal of Women's Health, 14, 491–503. PDF ↓
10. Simon, K.C., …, Zhang, J., …, Mednick, S.C. (2022). Sleep facilitates spatial memory but not navigation using the Minecraft Memory and Navigation task. PNAS, 119(43), e2202394119. PDF ↓
11. Simon, K.C., Whitehurst, L.N., Zhang, J., Mednick, S.C. (2021). Zolpidem maintains memories for negative emotions across a night of sleep. Affective Science. PDF ↓
12. Zhang, J.†, Yetton, B.†, Whitehurst, L.N., Naji, M., Mednick, S.C. (2020). The effect of zolpidem on memory consolidation over a night of sleep. Sleep. PDF ↓
13. Furman, A.J., …, Zhang, J., …, Seminowicz, D.A. (2020). Sensorimotor peak alpha frequency is a reliable biomarker of prolonged pain sensitivity. Cerebral Cortex, 30(12), 6069–6082. DOI →
14. Seminowicz, D.A., …, Zhang, J., …, Haythornthwaite, J.A. (2020). Enhanced mindfulness-based stress reduction in episodic migraine: a randomized clinical trial with MRI outcomes. PAIN. PDF ↓
15. Zhang, J., Wamsley, E.J. (2019). EEG predictors of dreaming outside of REM sleep. Psychophysiology, 56(7). PDF ↓

Plus 15+ conference talks and posters (SLEEP, SfN, Gordon Research Conference) — see the full CV.

Skills & methods