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Alexandra E. Clausen M.Sc.

Research group Ellermeier

Consultation hour by appointment

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Research group Ellermeier

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64283 Darmstadt

  • Evaluative conditioning
  • Early sensory processing
  • Clausen, A. E., Kattner, F., & Ellermeier, W. (2024). Affective valence affects speech intelligibility in noise.15th Speech in Noise Workshop – SPIN 2024, Potsdam, Germany.
  • Clausen, A. E., Kattner, F., & Ellermeier, W. (2023). Does speech intelligibility depend on affective valence? Fechner Day 2022 – 39th Annual meeting of the international society for psychophysics, Assisi, Italy.
  • Clausen, A.E. & Kattner, F. (2023). Valence in feature and conjunction search. 65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Trier, Germany.
  • Clausen, A., Lindenkreuz, H., Kracke, H., & Kattner, F. (2022). Visual attention guided by either associatively or propositionally learned valence. Fechner Day 2022 – 38th Annual meeting of the international society for psychophysics, Lund, Sweden.
  • Clausen, A., Schlichting, O., & Kattner, F. (2022). Investigating search asymmetry in visual search tasks with evaluative conditioned stimuli. 11th PhD Summer School Cognitive Psychology (“A-Dok”), Bremen, Germany.
  • Clausen, A. & Kattner, F. (2022). Revisiting valence in visual search tasks. 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Cologne, Germany.
  • Clausen, A., Kattner, F., & Westerweller, S. (2021). The salience of valence in visual search tasks. 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm, Germany.
  • Kattner, F.* & Clausen, A.* (2020). Revisiting the prioritization of emotional information in iconic memory. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 191507. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191507
    * Authors contributed equally / shared first authorship
  • Clausen, A., Kattner, F., & Salazar-Vogel, K. (2020, March). Effects of evaluative conditioning on the selection from iconic memory. 62nd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Jena, Germany.
  • Clausen, A., Saul, C., & Kattner, F. (2019, September). Investigating ERP components resulting from evaluatively conditioned stimuli. Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Clausen, A. & Kattner F. (2019, April). Revisiting the prioritization of emotional information in iconic memory: A pre-registered replication study. 61st Conference of Experimental Psychologists, London, United Kingdom.
  • Clausen, A., Fenner, B., Kennett, S., & Cooper, N. R. (2014, September). Through the looking glass: An EEG investigation into the proposed social responding function of the human mirror neuron system. Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience, York, United Kingdom.
10/2023-03/2024 Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
04/2023-09/2023 Seminar lecturer for topics of general psychology [Seminar Allgemeine Psychologie], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
10/2022-03/2023 Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
08/2022-03/2024 Team leader of the mentoring team for first year psychology students
04/2022-09/2022 Seminar lecturer for topics of general psychology [Seminar Allgemeine Psychologie], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
10/2021-09/2023 Representative of the scientific staff of the department in the departmental council of Human Sciences
10/2021-03/2022 Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
05/2021-present Member of the task force for the doctorate colloquium of the department
04/2021-09/2021 Seminar lecturer for topics of general psychology [Seminar Allgemeine Psychologie I], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
10/2020-09/2022 Representative of the scientific staff in the “Direktorium” of the Institute of Psychology in a shared responsibility with Florian Kadner
10/2020-03/2021 Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
10/2019-03/2020 Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
11/2019 Recipient of a research award of the Department of Human Sciences for an innovative doctoral research proposal, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
02/2019-03/2023 Moodle support of the Institute of Psychology
10/2018-03/2019 Co-Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
08/2018-present Research Associate (doctoral candidate), Applied Cognitive Psychology Lab (Prof. Wolfgang Ellermeier), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
09/2017-07/2018 Teacher in training, PGCE in Mathematics, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
02/2017-08/2017 Student, SKE in Mathematics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
04/2016-08/2017 Teaching Assistant, South Bromsgrove High School, Bromsgrove, UK
11/2015-04/2016 Teaching Assistant, The Chase School, Malvern, UK
08/2015-12/2015 Support Worker, Safehands Recruitment, Worcester, UK
01/2015-07/2015 Live Skills Instructor, Options Malvern View residential care home (prior AALPS Midlands), Hanley Castle, Worcester, UK
10/2013-11/2014 Student, M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Research focus: Neuroscience
03/2013-09/2013 Self-employed, Public Relations, Communication and Congress Service, Bichl, Germany
08/2011-09/2011 Intern at the Department of Fundamentals and Development, Zentrum Informationsarbeit Bundeswehr (prior AIK), Strausberg, Germany
05/2009-12/2012 Student Assistant at the Department “Denkmalforschung und Denkmalerfassung”, Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Munich, Germany
10/2007-03/2013 Student, M.A. in Theatre Studies, Psychology, German Medieval Language and Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
  • “Auswirkungen einer Meditation mit geführten Bildern auf die mentalen Bilder von Menschen mit Aphantasie” – Elisabeth Tepelboim, Summer term 2022
  • “Achtsames Bewerten: Der Einfluss von Mindfulness auf evaluative Konditionierung” – Laszlo Gilanyi, Summer term 2022
  • “Effects of Evaluative Conditioning in Explicit and Implicit Evaluations After Inferential or Associative Learning” – Juliane Höfling, Summer term 2022
  • “Evaluative Konditionierung: Auswirung auf die visuelle Aufmerksamkeit und zugrundeliegende Lernprozesse” – Hannah Lindenkreuz & Henri Kracke, Summer term 2022
  • “Die Wirkung von Diskriminationstrainings auf Angst-Generalisierung mithilfe evaluativer Konditionierung” – Vanessa Voges, Summer term 2022
  • “Evaluativ konditionierte Reize in der Visuellen Suche: Asymmetrie basierend auf Emotionalität” – Olivia Schlichting, Summer term 2022
  • “Evaluative Konditionierung digitaler Orte am Bildschirm und ihr Einfluss auf das ikonische Gedächtnis” – Eleftherios Pantazidis, Winter term 2021-22
  • “Generalisierung von evaluativen Konditionierungseffekten bei visuell ähnlichen Stimuli” – Jenny McMahon, Winter term 2021-22
  • “Die Verarbeitung von emotionalen Stimuli im ikonischen Gedächtnis, Labor vs. Online-Studie” – Johanna Stumpf, Bachelor thesis, Summer term 2021
  • „Wie evaluative Konditionierung die visuelle Aufmerksamkeit beeinflusst“ – Saskia Westerweller, Bachelor thesis, Summer term 2020
  • “Elektrophysiologische Korrelate evaluativer Konditionierung” – Celine Saul, Bachelor thesis, Summer term 2019
  • “Untersuchung der Auswirkung von Emotionen auf das ikonische Gedächtnis mithilfe evaluativer Konditionierung“ – Karla Salazar-Vogel, Master thesis, Summer term 2019