Teresa Sylvester
Allgemeine und Neurokognitive Psychologie
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Affektive Wortverarbeitung bei Kindern und Erwachsenen
Raum JK 27 / 234
14195 Berlin
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Education
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11/16 - present |
Ph.D. Student (Freie Universität Berlin) Primary Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs Second Supervisor: Thesis topic: Neural correlates of affective semantic processing of adults and children performing a valence and a lexical decision task
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10/14 - 10/16 |
M.Sc. in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Freie Universität Berlin) Primary Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Jana Lüdtke Thesis: Emotion word processing in children and adults: An fMRI study
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09/11 - 09/14 |
B.Sc. in Psychology (Freie Universität Berlin) Primary Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Detlev Liepmann Secondary Supervisor: PD Dr. Hans-Uwe Hohner Thesis: Equivalence assessment of the d2-R concentration test as paper-pencil and tablet version in 18-37 years olds within a retest design
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2006 - 2009 |
Apprenticeship in Education |
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Research Experience
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04/13 – 10/16 |
Counselling, research methods, development and evaluation of research methods with people with disabilities, data analysis AWO Bundesverband e.V., Prof. M. Komorek
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04/13 – 07/16 |
Data acquisition and analysis, method implementation, training Unternehmensberatung BBI GmbH, Udo Castedello
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12/14 – 10/16 |
Student Assistant: General and Neurocognitive Psychology Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. A. M. Jacobs
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04/13 – 12/15 |
Student Assistant: Work, Organizational and Economic Psychology. Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Liepmann |
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Teaching Experience
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04/19 – 09/20 |
B.Sc Psychology Seminar ‘Practice in Experimental Psychology’ Freie Universität Berlin
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10/19 – 02/20 |
B.Sc Psychology Seminar ‚Neurocognitive Psychology‘ Freie Universität Berlin
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04/17 – 02/20 |
B.Sc. Psychology Seminar ‘Experimental Psychology’ Freie Universität Berlin
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10/16 – 02/18 |
B.Sc. Psycholgy Seminar ‘Propaedeuticum Practice in Exp. Psy.‘ Freie Universität Berlin
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04/16 – 03/18 |
B.Sc. Social Work Seminar ‘Qualitative Research’, |
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Extra Curricular
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09/18 |
Python Programming for Machine Learning Technische Universität Berlin
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Training in didactics for teaching at university |
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Grants
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10/11 – 10/16 |
Study Stipend (SBB, career promotion for highly talented) |
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Conference talks
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09/17 |
Gambino, R., Pulvirenti, G., Sylvester, T., Jacobs, A.M. & Lüdtke, J. Reading Shakespeare Sonnets – A Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Study. ECOST conference, Vilnius, Lithuania |
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Poster presentations
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06/17 |
Reading Meister and Margarita IGEL conference, Paris, France |
Programming & Analysis Skills
Matlab, Python, R, JMP, fMRI analysis in SPM
Research topics
Neural correlates of affect semantic in young children
Languages
German (native), English (fluent)
- Neural correlates of affective semantics in (young) children and adults
- Poem and prose reception
- language development / developmental aspects of dyslexia
Pulvirenti, G., Gambino, R., Sylvester, T., Jacobs, A. M., & Lüdtke, J. (2020). The Foregrounding Assessment Matrix: An interface for qualitative-quantitative interdisciplinary research. ENTHYMEMA, (26), 261-284. doi:10.13130/2037-2426/14387
Sylvester, T., Liebig, J., Jacobs, A. M. (2021). Neuroimaging of valence decisions in children and adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 48(6):100925 doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100925
Sylvester, T., Liebig, J., Jacobs, A. M. (2021): Neural correlates of affective contributions to lexical decisions in children and adults. Scientific Reports 11(1) doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-80359-1
Gambino, R., Pulvirenti, G., Sylvester, T., Jacobs, A. M., & Lüdtke, J. Enthymema XXVI 2020 The Foregrounding Assessment Matrix: An Interface for Qualitative-Quantitative Interdisciplinary Research.
Xue, S., Lüdtke, J., Sylvester, T., & Jacobs, A. M. (2019). Reading Shakespeare sonnets: Combining quantitative narrative analysis and predictive modeling-an eye tracking study. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 12.
Sylvester, T., Braun, M., Schmidtke, D. & Jacobs, A. M. (2016). The Berlin Affective Word List for Children (kidBAWL): Exploring Processing of Affective Lexical Semantics in the Visual and Auditory Modalities, Frontiers in Psychology 1(7), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00969