University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

October 2016-September 2020

Experimental Psychology DPhil Program

Brain & Cognition Laboratory, Supervised by Kia Nobre

  

Goethe Universität, Frankfurt Am. Main, Germany

October 2014-October 2016

Masters of Interdisciplinary Neuroscience

Thesis: Anchoring predictions in scenes: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence revealing the role of "anchor" objects in scenes

 

University of Delaware, Newark, De, USA

May 2012

Psychology Bachelor of Science Degree with Distinction Statistics Bachelor of Science

Minor: Mathematics 

Thesis: A study of the event related brain potential (ERP) component associated with the phenomenon of Emotional Induced Blindness (EIB)

 

Research Experience

Post Doctoral Researcher: Kia Nobre's Brain & Cognition Lab, University of Oxford

October 2020 - Present

 

Research Assistant: Melissa Vo’s Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt Am. Main

Winter 2014-Fall 2016

 

Research Assistant: Jeremy Wolfe’s Visual Attention Lab, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Ma, USA 

Spring 2012 - Spring 2014

  

Teaching Experience

Leader for Statistical Methods and Theory: University of Oxford

 

Fall 2021

Winter 2022

 

Stipendiary Lecturer St Anne's College: University of Oxford

 

October 2021-present

 

Stipendiary Lecturer New College: University of Oxford

January 2021-October 2021

 

Leader for EEG Block Practical: University of Oxford

Fall 2020

 

Demonstrator for Statistical Methods and Theory: University of Oxford

Fall 2019, 2020

Winter 2019, 2020

 

Demonstrator for EEG Block Practical: University of Oxford

Fall 2018, 2019

 

Funding and Fellowships

 

Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship; 2021-2022

Fellowship of the Center for Advanced Studies (LMU Munich): Handling Visual Distraction; 2021-2022

 

Presentations (since 2017)

Boettcher, S.E.P., van Ede, F. & Nobre, A.C. (2020) "Proactive memory-guided attentional templates are flexibly weighted across feature dimensions " Poster presented at Visison Sciences Society Annual Meeting St. Pete Beach, Florida. 

 

Boettcher, S.E.P., van Ede, F. & Nobre, A.C. (2019) "Dynamic and adaptive proactive perceptual templates are weighted by relevant feature dimensions defined within the context of lures" Poster presented at Rovereto Attention Workshop. Rovereto, Italy. 

 

Boettcher, S.E.P., van Ede, F. & Nobre, A.C. (2019) "Dynamic and adaptive proactive perceptual templates are weighted by relevant feature dimensions" Poster presented at European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Tenerife, Spain

 

Boettcher, S.E.P., van Ede, F. & Nobre, A.C. (2019) "Dynamic and adaptive proactive perceptual templates are weighted by relevant feature dimensions" Poster presented at British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge, UK

 

Boettcher, S.E.P., van Ede, F. & Nobre, A.C. (2019) "Neural indices of proactive target templates" Poster presented at Visison Sciences Society Annual Meeting St. Pete Beach, Florida

 

Boettcher, S.E.P., van Ede, F. Stokes, M.G. & Nobre, A.C. (2019) "Proactive dynamics associated with memory-based attentional templates" Poster presented at MEGUK, Cardiff, Wales

 

Boettcher, S.E.P., van Ede, F. & Nobre, A.C. (2018)  " Is the use of visual predictions dependent on expected target difficulty?" Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting: St. Pete Beach, Florida

 

Boettcher, S.E.P., Dienhart, E. & Võ (2017)  "Anchoring spatial predictions: Evidence for the critical role of anchor objects for visual search in scenes" Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting: St. Pete Beach, Florida

 

Awards

 

Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award (2020)

Object Perception and Memory Travel Award (2013)

Sigma Xi Undergraduate Thesis Award (2012)