Dr. 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
Beyer, M., Liebig, J., Sylvester, T., Braun, M., Heekeren, H. R., Froehlich, E., Jacobs, A. M., Ziegler, J. C. (2002): Structural gray matter features and behavioral preliterate skills predict future literacy – A machine learning approach. Frontiers in Neuroscience 16, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.920150
Liebig, J., Froehlich, E., Sylvester, T., Braun, M., Heekeren, H. R., Ziegler, J. C, Jacobs, A. M. (2021). Neural processing of vision and language in kindergarten is associated with prereading skills and predicts future literacy. Human Brain Mapping, doi: 10.1002/hbm.25449
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