Lotte Stemerding
Postdoc
Research Interests
In a broad sense, I am interested in how our memories shape and affect our behaviour, decisions, and mental health. I am currently investigating the effect of prediction errors on changes in fear behaviour. In addition, I work on identifying other predictors of the long-term effects of clinical interventions, both in conditioning experiments and clinical interventions.
Background
I completed a bachelor degree in liberal arts and sciences at the Amsterdam University College (2015, cum laude), where I majored in human biology, but also took various courses in different disciplines. After, I moved to London to start an MSc programme in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, which I completed in 2017. During my PhD (also in the Emotional Memory Lab), I investigated the role of prediction errors in memory reconsolidation and extinction learning with the use of fear-conditioning experiments.
Personal webpage
http://www.uva.nl/profiel/s/t/l.e.stemerding/l.e.stemerding.html