Lena Maria Leeners, M.Sc.

Doktorandin
Institut für Psychologie
Fliednerstraße 21
D-48149 Münster
Raum: Fl 313
Tel.: +49 (0) 251 / 83 34097

Akademischer Werdegang

Seit Oktober 2018
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin, Institut für Psychologie, Arbeitseinheit
Biologische Psychologie, Universität Münster, Deutschland
Supervisorin: Prof. Dr. Ricarda I. Schubotz

2017 – 2018
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und
Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig, Deutschland
Supervisorin: Prof. Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein

2014 – 2016
Master of Science in “Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience”, Universität Maastricht,
Niederlande

2015 – 2016
Masterarbeit und Forschungspraktikum
“The influence of direct gaze on the mechanisms of action control”
Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, München, Deutschland
Supervisor: PD Dr. Leonhard Schilbach

2013 – 2014
Master of Science in „Health and Social Psychology“, Universität Maastricht, Niederlande

2014
Masterarbeit und Forschungspraktikum
“Gender differences in fear conditioning in high-anxious adolescents“
Department of Experimental Psychology, Universität Oxford, Großbritannien
Supervisorin: Dr. Kathrin Cohen Kadosh

2010 – 2013
Bachelor of Science in Psychologie, Universität Maastricht, Niederlande

2013
Masterthese und freiwilliges Praktikum
“Malingering of mentally retarded patients within a forensic psychiatry: The merits of the Schretlen’ Malingering Scale”
Christophorusklinik Münster, Deutschland
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Merckelbach

2012
Auslandsstudium in Psychologie (Bachelor of Science)
Universität Stellenbosch, Südafrika

Publikationen

Schliephake, L.,Trempler, I., Roehe, M.A., Heins, N., Schubotz,R.I. (2021). Positive and negative prediction error signals to violated expectations of face and place stimuli distinctively activate FFA and PPA. NeuroImage, 236 (2021) 118028 PDF

Roehe, M.A., Kluger, D.S., Schroeder, S.C.Y., Schliephake, L.M., Boelte, J., Jacobsen, T., Schubotz., R.I. (2021). Early alpha/beta oscillations reflect the formation of face-related expectations in the brain. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0255116

Zillekens, I., Schliephake, L., Brandi, M.-L., & Schilbach, L. (2019). A look at actions: Direct gaze modulates functional connectivity of the right TPJ with an action control network. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Kadosh, K. C., Haller, S. P., Schliephake, L., Duta, M., Scerif, G., & Lau, J. Y. (2018). Subclinically anxious adolescents do not display attention biases when processing emotional faces – An eye-tracking study. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.

Konferenzbeiträge

Schliephake, L., Brandi, M.-L., & Schilbach, L. (April 2016). Modulation of brain activity in the inferior frontal gyrus during the generation of manual actions in a social context. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SANS) conference, New York City, USA.

Projektbeschreibung

The interplay of positive and negative prediction error signals during expectation violations of visual stimuli

Surprising scenarios can have different behavioural and neuronal consequences depending on the violation of the expectation. On the one hand, previous research has shown that the omission of a visual stimulus results in a robust cortical response representing that missing stimulus, a so-called negative prediction error. On the other hand, a large amount of studies revealed positive prediction error signals, entailing an increased neural response that can be attributed to the experience of a surprising, unexpected stimulus. However, it still remains unclear how and when these prediction error signals co-occur. In this project, we investigate whether positive and negative prediction error signals evoked by unpredicted cross-category stimulus transitions can temporally coincide. Moreover, we seek to clarify the relationship between the effects of positive and negative predictions errors and stimulus transition effects caused by equal or unequal stimulus category presentations. We use event-related fMRI and forced-choice decision tasks in which participants have to respond to individual visual images presented in a continuous stream with sequential contingencies.