Prof. Dr. Pamela Banta Lavenex
Pamela Banta Lavenex has been an Associate Professor in Psychology at UniDistance Suisse since 2020.
Pamela Banta Lavenex has an extensive and varied academic background. She has a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Arizona in the United States, where her research focused on investigating the neurobiological bases of cognitive abilities in budgerigars, utilizing cognitive neuroscience and comparative psychology techniques. She completed post-doctoral research at the MIND Institute (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) at the University of California in Davis, where she studied the development of memory and the hippocampus in monkeys.
Since coming to Switzerland, she has been pursuing a line of research supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation on the functional development of memory throughout life, in particular in typically developing children and in individuals with an atypical development, such as Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) or Williams syndrome. She collaborates with Professor Pierre Lavenex of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Development (LABCD) at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Lausanne (UNIL).
Aktuelles
SNF fördert ein Projekt von Prof. Dr Pamela Banta Lavenex
Wenn Wettervorhersagen bei der Entwicklung von Lernstrategien helfen
Research focus
- Die Entwicklung und Funktionsweise der verschiedenen Gedächtnissysteme im Laufe des Lebens
- Die Gedächtnissysteme bei Menschen mit Down- oder Williams-Syndrom
- Die Zusammenhänge zwischen Gehirnaktivität (EEG) und kognitiven Fähigkeiten
Aktuelle wissenschaftliche Publikationen
- Baillifard, A., Gabella, M., Banta Lavenex, P., & Martarelli, C. S. (2024). Effective learning with a personal AI tutor: A case study. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-024-12888-5
- Banta Lavenex, P., Blandin, M. L., Gaborieau, C., & Lavenex, P. (2024). Well-designed manufacturing work improves some cognitive abilities in individuals with cognitive impairments. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 5, 1377133. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2024.1377133/full
- Bochud‐Fragnière, E., Lonchampt, G., Bittolo, P., Ehrensperger, G., Circelli, A. R., Antonicelli, N., Costanzo, F., Menghini, D., Vicari, S., Banta Lavenex, P. & Lavenex, P. (2024). Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(5), e22503. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dev.22503
- Meziane, H. B., Jabès, A., Klencklen, G., Banta Lavenex, P., & Lavenex, P. (2024). EEG markers of successful allocentric spatial working memory maintenance in humans. European Journal of Neuroscience, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16446
- Bochud-Fragnière, E., Lavenex, P., & Banta Lavenex, P. (2024). Development of conditional learning abilities in children from 3 to 12 years of age. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2024.2314973
- Bochud-Fragnière, E., Lavenex, P. and Banta Lavenex P. (2023). When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task? Developmental Psychobiology, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dev.22407
- Villard, J., Chareyron, L.J., Piguet, O., Lambercy, P., Lonchampt, G., Banta Lavenex, P., Amaral, D.G. and Lavenex, P. (2023). Structural plasticity in the entorhinal and perirhinal cortices following hippocampal lesion in rhesus monkeys. Hippocampus, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.23567
Research projects
Forschungsgruppen
Neurocognitive Development
Fakultät Psychologie
Lehre
| M01 |
Introduction à la psychologie : thématique et disciplines
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
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| M11 |
Neuropsychologie et neurosciences
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
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Funktionen an der FernUni Schweiz
Fakultät Psychologie
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- Ausserordentliche Professorin
Fakultätskollegium Psychologie
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Akademischer Rat
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- Dekanin Fakultät Psychologie
Neurocognitive Development
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