Prof. Dr. Pamela Banta Lavenex

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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 works closely together with Professor Pierre Lavenex and the members of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Development (LABCD) at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Lausanne (UNIL).

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Lehre

M01	Introduction à la psychologie : thématique et disciplines (DE) Bachelor en psychologie
M11	Neuropsychologie et neurosciences Bachelor en psychologie

Funktionen an der FernUni Schweiz

Fakultät Psychologie

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Fakultätskollegium Psychologie

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Akademischer Rat

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Neurocognitive Development

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Forschungsschwerpunkte

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
Die Auswirkungen von intermodalem Lernen auf die kognitiven Fähigkeiten von Menschen mit Behinderungen

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