Dr. Daniela Ramirez Butavand
Kontakt
Dr. Daniela Ramirez Butavand
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaft
Im Neuenheimer Feld 700
69120 Heidelberg
E-Mail: daniela.ramirez@issw.uni-heidelberg.de
Telefon: +6221 54-4648
Büro: INF 720, 045
Daniela Ramirez Butavand studied physics (B.Sc. & M.Sc.) at the University of Buenos Aires from 2009 to 2015. She then did her PhD in cognitive neuroscience under the supervision of Dr. Pedro Bekinschtein and Dr. Fabricio Ballarini and completed her thesis on the topic “Biological mechanisms involved in memory and pattern separation in humans: effects of physical activity and novelty” in 2021.
Daniela Ramirez Butavand then completed an internship at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lucia Melloni on the topic “Schematic and episodic predictive processes” and taught a master’s degree course on the topic “Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness and Memory” at the Goethe University in 2022. Since December 2022, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Exercise, Training and Active Aging in collaboration with the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH), Mannheim.
Daniela’s research focuses on the interaction between physical exercise and sleep, and how this relationship influences brain plasticity and memory processes.
Lehre
- Spezifische Forschungsmethoden
- Excercise and Sleep
Publikationen
Ramirez Butavand, D., Nagel, J., Feld, G. B., & Steib, S. (2025). High intensity exercise before sleep boosts memory encoding the next morning. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 20388.
Butavand, D. R., Rodriguez, M. F., Cifuentes, M. V., Miranda, M., Bauza, C. G., Bekinschtein, P., & Ballarini, F. (2023). Acute and chronic physical activity improves spatial memory in an immersive virtual reality task. iScience, 26(3).
Rodríguez, M. F., Ramirez Butavand, D., Cifuentes, M. V., Bekinschtein, P., Ballarini, F., & García Bauza, C. (2022). A virtual reality platform for memory evaluation: Assessing effects of spatial strategies. Behavior Research Methods, 54(6), 2707–2719.
Ramírez Butavand, D., Hirsch, I., Tomaiuolo, M., Moncada, D., Viola, H., & Ballarini, F. (2020). Novelty improves the formation and persistence of memory in a naturalistic school scenario. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 48.
Assaneo, M. F., Ramirez Butavand, D., Trevisan, M. A., & Mindlin, G. B. (2019). Discrete anatomical coordinates for speech production and synthesis. Frontiers in Communication, 4, 13.
Lopes da Cunha, P., Ramírez Butavand, D., Chisari, L. B., Ballarini, F., & Viola, H. (2018). Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task. npj Science of Learning, 3(1), 19.