Virginie Sterpenich

6.6k total citations
63 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Virginie Sterpenich is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginie Sterpenich has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Virginie Sterpenich's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (33 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (24 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (19 papers). Virginie Sterpenich is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (33 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (24 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (19 papers). Virginie Sterpenich collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Switzerland and France. Virginie Sterpenich's co-authors include Pierre Maquet, Martin Desseilles, Thien Thanh Dang‐Vu, Geneviève Albouy, Gilles Vandewalle, Evelyne Balteau, Annabelle Darsaud, André Luxen, Manuel Schabus and Christian Degueldre and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Virginie Sterpenich

60 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Virginie Sterpenich Belgium 34 3.5k 1.6k 837 715 271 63 4.4k
Martin Desseilles Belgium 34 3.6k 1.0× 1.8k 1.1× 658 0.8× 682 1.0× 319 1.2× 104 4.8k
Thien Thanh Dang‐Vu Canada 39 4.5k 1.3× 2.4k 1.4× 941 1.1× 693 1.0× 200 0.7× 126 5.5k
Annabelle Darsaud Belgium 19 2.4k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 703 0.8× 600 0.8× 176 0.6× 26 3.0k
Géraldine Rauchs France 28 2.9k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 491 0.6× 610 0.9× 192 0.7× 78 3.5k
Evelyne Balteau Belgium 45 4.8k 1.4× 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 916 1.3× 626 2.3× 87 6.7k
Christian Degueldre Belgium 36 3.9k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 615 0.7× 673 0.9× 379 1.4× 52 5.1k
Gilles Vandewalle Belgium 45 4.8k 1.4× 2.4k 1.5× 2.1k 2.5× 1.1k 1.6× 478 1.8× 121 7.1k
Steffen Gais Germany 38 7.6k 2.2× 3.4k 2.1× 1.2k 1.4× 2.0k 2.8× 250 0.9× 77 8.7k
Sophie Schwartz Switzerland 48 7.0k 2.0× 2.5k 1.5× 618 0.7× 500 0.7× 772 2.8× 140 8.4k
Christina Schmidt Belgium 27 1.6k 0.4× 1.2k 0.7× 582 0.7× 224 0.3× 176 0.6× 69 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Virginie Sterpenich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virginie Sterpenich

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Virginie Sterpenich. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Virginie Sterpenich based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Virginie Sterpenich. Virginie Sterpenich is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Perogamvros, Lampros, et al.. (2025). The cathartic dream: Using a large language model to study a new type of functional dream in healthy and clinical populations. Journal of Sleep Research. 34(6). e70001–e70001.
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Schwartz, Sophie, et al.. (2025). Influence of parental rules about screen electronic device use in the evening on sleep in adolescents. Discover Public Health. 22(1). 517–517.
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Samson, David R., Mallika S. Sarma, Sheina Lew‐Levy, et al.. (2023). Evidence for an emotional adaptive function of dreams: a cross-cultural study. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16530–16530. 5 indexed citations
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Sterpenich, Virginie, Avinash Ramyead, Stephen Perrig, et al.. (2021). Reward biases spontaneous neural reactivation during sleep. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4162–4162. 33 indexed citations
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Perrault, Aurore A., Laurence Bayer, Paolo Ghisletta, et al.. (2019). Reducing the use of screen electronic devices in the evening is associated with improved sleep and daytime vigilance in adolescents. SLEEP. 42(9). 77 indexed citations
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Sterpenich, Virginie, Sonia Vidal, Jérémy Hofmeister, et al.. (2019). Increased Reactivity of the Mesolimbic Reward System after Ketamine Injection in Patients with Treatment-resistant Major Depressive Disorder. Anesthesiology. 130(6). 923–935. 43 indexed citations
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Jegou, Aude, Manuel Schabus, Olivia Gosseries, et al.. (2019). Cortical reactivations during sleep spindles following declarative learning. NeuroImage. 195. 104–112. 38 indexed citations
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Vidal, Sonia, Marianne Gex‐Fabry, Victor Bancila, et al.. (2018). Efficacy and Safety of a Rapid Intravenous Injection of Ketamine 0.5 mg/kg in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 38(6). 590–597. 35 indexed citations
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Piguet, Camille, Virginie Sterpenich, Martin Desseilles, et al.. (2013). Neural substrates of cognitive switching and inhibition in a face processing task. NeuroImage. 82. 489–499. 23 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Christina, Philippe Peigneux, Yves Leclercq, et al.. (2012). Circadian Preference Modulates the Neural Substrate of Conflict Processing across the Day. PLoS ONE. 7(1). e29658–e29658. 68 indexed citations
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Lucia, Marzia De, et al.. (2011). Decoding Sequence Learning from Single-Trial Intracranial EEG in Humans. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28630–e28630. 16 indexed citations
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Desseilles, Martin, Sophie Schwartz, Thien Thanh Dang‐Vu, et al.. (2010). Depression alters “top-down” visual attention: A dynamic causal modeling comparison between depressed and healthy subjects. NeuroImage. 54(2). 1662–1668. 60 indexed citations
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Desseilles, Martin, Evelyne Balteau, Virginie Sterpenich, et al.. (2009). Abnormal neural filtering of irrelevant visual information in depression. NeuroImage. 47. S43–S43. 4 indexed citations
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Desseilles, Martin, Evelyne Balteau, Virginie Sterpenich, et al.. (2009). Abnormal Neural Filtering of Irrelevant Visual Information in Depression. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(5). 1395–1403. 105 indexed citations
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Gais, Steffen, Geneviève Albouy, Annabelle Darsaud, et al.. (2008). Hippocampal-neocortical interactions in long-term memory consolidation depend on sleep. Journal of Sleep Research. 17. 11–11. 1 indexed citations
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Sterpenich, Virginie, Geneviève Albouy, Mélanie Boly, et al.. (2006). The role of sleep in the consolidation of emotional memories in humans : a fMRI study. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 3 indexed citations
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Vandewalle, Gilles, Steffen Gais, Manuel Schabus, et al.. (2006). Superiority of blue (470 nm) light in eliciting non-image forming brain responses during auditory working memory in humans: a fMRI study. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 2 indexed citations
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Vandewalle, Gilles, Evelyne Balteau, Christophe Phillips, et al.. (2006). Daytime Light Exposure Dynamically Enhances Brain Responses. Current Biology. 16(16). 1616–1621. 224 indexed citations
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Maquet, Pierre, Perrine Ruby, Audrey Maudoux, et al.. (2005). Human cognition during REM sleep and the activity profile within frontal and parietal cortices: a reappraisal of functional neuroimaging data. Progress in brain research. 150. 219–595. 134 indexed citations
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Desseilles, Martin, Annabelle Darsaud, Steffen Gais, et al.. (2005). Dreaming: a neuroimaging view. Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie. 156(8). 415–425. 13 indexed citations

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