Björn Rasch

12.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
126 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Björn Rasch is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Björn Rasch has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 56 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Björn Rasch's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (81 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (55 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (49 papers). Björn Rasch is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (81 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (55 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (49 papers). Björn Rasch collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Björn Rasch's co-authors include Jan Born, Steffen Gais, Christian Büchel, Thomas Schreiner, Susanne Diekelmann, Maren Jasmin Cordi, Sandra Ackermann, Dominique J.‐F. de Quervain, Ewald Naumann and Erich Seifritz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Björn Rasch

124 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

About Sleep's Role in Memory

2013 1.8k citations Björn Rasch, Jan Born Physiological Reviews profile →
Odor Cues During Slow-Wave Sleep Prompt Declarative Memory Consolidation

2007 820 citations Björn Rasch, Steffen Gais et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Björn Rasch	6.5k	3.6k	1.3k	1.1k	385	126	8.0k
Steffen Gais	7.6k 1.2×	3.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	250 0.6×	77	8.7k
Robert Stickgold	6.2k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	708 0.6×	567 1.5×	60	7.2k
Susanne Diekelmann	5.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	916 0.8×	163 0.4×	51	5.8k
Evelyne Balteau	4.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	916 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	626 1.6×	87	6.7k
Gilles Vandewalle	4.8k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	2.1k 2.0×	478 1.2×	121	7.1k
Sophie Schwartz	7.0k 1.1×	2.5k 0.7×	500 0.4×	618 0.6×	772 2.0×	140	8.4k
Virginie Sterpenich	3.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	715 0.5×	837 0.8×	271 0.7×	63	4.4k
Matthias Mölle	7.1k 1.1×	2.8k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	130 0.3×	81	8.2k
Philippe Peigneux	8.1k 1.2×	3.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	874 2.3×	230	11.0k
Ken A. Paller	10.1k 1.6×	3.1k 0.9×	953 0.7×	424 0.4×	1.2k 3.2×	204	11.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Björn Rasch

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Adelhöfer, Nico, Alejandra Alonso, Luciana Besedovsky, et al.. (2025). Hacking the functions of sleep: noninvasive approaches to stimulate sleep neurophysiology. Physiological Reviews. 106(2). 675–749. 1 indexed citations

Zech, Nina, et al.. (2024). HGSHS-5:G—First results with the short version of the test for the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility and a comparison with the full version. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1422920–1422920. 1 indexed citations

Kasten, Florian H., et al.. (2024). No Benefit in Memory Performance after Nocturnal Memory Reactivation Coupled with Theta-tACS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2). 211–233. 1 indexed citations

Cordi, Maren Jasmin, Thomas Schreiner, & Björn Rasch. (2023). Is prior knowledge essential? Additional training opportunities restore sleep‐associated memory benefits under conditions of low prior knowledge. Journal of Sleep Research. 32(4). 3 indexed citations

Schoch, Sarah F., et al.. (2023). Neural correlates of sleep‐induced benefits on traumatic memory processing. Human Brain Mapping. 44(9). 3506–3518. 9 indexed citations

Weber, Frederik D., Zsófia Zavecz, Björn Rasch, et al.. (2023). Sustained polyphasic sleep restriction abolishes human growth hormone release. SLEEP. 47(2). 3 indexed citations

Revenstorf, Dirk, et al.. (2023). Hypnose in Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Medizin.

Rasch, Björn, et al.. (2023). Targeted memory reactivation during slow-wave sleep vs. sleep stage N2: no significant differences in a vocabulary task. Learning & Memory. 30(9). 192–200. 8 indexed citations

Loretz, Erna, et al.. (2021). Exposure to relaxing words during sleep promotes slow-wave sleep and subjective sleep quality. SLEEP. 44(11). 12 indexed citations

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Rasch, Björn, et al.. (2021). Embodiment of sleep‐related words: Evidence from event‐related potentials. Psychophysiology. 58(8). e13824–e13824. 3 indexed citations

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Schoch, Sarah F., Maren Jasmin Cordi, Michael Schredl, & Björn Rasch. (2018). The effect of dream report collection and dream incorporation on memory consolidation during sleep. Journal of Sleep Research. 28(1). e12754–e12754. 21 indexed citations

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Schreiner, Thomas & Björn Rasch. (2014). Boosting Vocabulary Learning by Verbal Cueing During Sleep. Cerebral Cortex. 25(11). 4169–4179. 139 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Sandra, David Coynel, Matthias Fastenrath, et al.. (2014). BAIAP2 Is Related to Emotional Modulation of Human Memory Strength. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e83707–e83707. 13 indexed citations

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Bosch, Oliver G., Julia S. Rihm, Milan Scheidegger, et al.. (2013). Sleep deprivation increases dorsal nexus connectivity to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(48). 19597–19602. 77 indexed citations

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Papassotiropoulos, Andreas, Elka Stefanova, Christian Vogler, et al.. (2011). A genome-wide survey and functional brain imaging study identify CTNNBL1 as a memory-related gene. Molecular Psychiatry. 18(2). 255–263. 29 indexed citations

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Rasch, Björn, Andreas Papassotiropoulos, & Dominique J.‐F. de Quervain. (2010). Imaging genetics of cognitive functions: Focus on episodic memory. NeuroImage. 53(3). 870–877. 41 indexed citations

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Rasch, Björn, Klara Spalek, Roger Luechinger, et al.. (2009). A genetic variation of the noradrenergic system is related to differential amygdala activation during encoding of emotional memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(45). 19191–19196. 109 indexed citations

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Gais, Steffen, Björn Rasch, Ullrich Wagner, & Jan Born. (2008). Visual–Procedural Memory Consolidation during Sleep Blocked by Glutamatergic Receptor Antagonists. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(21). 5513–5518. 35 indexed citations

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Rasch, Björn & Jan Born. (2007). Maintaining memories by reactivation. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 17(6). 698–703. 171 indexed citations

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Rasch, Björn, Jan Born, & Steffen Gais. (2006). Combined Blockade of Cholinergic Receptors Shifts the Brain from Stimulus Encoding to Memory Consolidation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 18(5). 793–802. 105 indexed citations

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