Publications

Pin-Chun Chen, Jing Zhang, Julian F. Thayer, and Sara C. Mednick (2022) Understanding the roles of central and autonomic activity during sleep in the improvement of working memory and episodic memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109339118 (Impact factor: 11.205)

Pin-Chun Chen, Hamid Niknazar, William A Alaynick, Lauren N. Whitehurst, and Sara C. Mednick (2021) Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109339118 (Impact factor: 11.205)

Pin-Chun Chen, Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, and Sara C. Mednick (2021) Age-related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap. Psychophysiology (Impact factor: 3.692)

Pin-Chun Chen, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, and Sara C. Mednick (2020) Autonomic/ central coupling during sleep boosts working memory in healthy adults. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (Impact factor: 3.244)

Pin-Chun Chen, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, and Sara C. Mednick (2020) Autonomic activity during a daytime nap facilitates working memory improvement. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Impact factor: 3.468)

Pin-Chun Chen, Katharine N Simon, Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, and Sara C. Mednick (2022) Autonomic/Central Coupling during Daytime Sleep Differs between Older and Younger People. (Impact factor: 3.244)

Dong Joo Kim, Tze-An Yuan, Pin-Chun Chen, Feng Liu-Smith, Natasha Atanaskova Mesinkovska, Hege Grande Sarpa (2021) Pediatric melanoma in the Hispanic population: An analysis of institutional and national data. Pediatric Dermatology.  (Impact factor: 1.164)