Research Topics and Interests
- Experimental psychopathology
- Anxiety disorders & Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Sleep deprivation
- Memory & Learning
- Human fear conditioning
Curriculum Vitae
since 06/2023
Scientific staff member, Psychotherapy outpatient clinic
University of Münstersince 02/2023
Psychologist, LWL-Klinik Lengerich
unit for trauma- and stressor-related disorders03/2021- 05/2023
Postdoctoral researcher, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
University of Münster11/2019 - 11/2020
Psychotherapeutic work as part of the clinical training, LWL-Klinik Lengerich
unit for affective disorderssince 2019
Postgraduate clinical training (CBT)
IPP Münster2016 - 2020
Dutch-Flemish Postgraduate School for Experimental Psychopathology (NL/BE)2015 - 2020
Doctoral researcher, Centre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology
KU Leuven (BE)2015
Clinical internship, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
unit for personality disorders & PTSD2014 - 2015
Research internship, Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma
University of Oxford (UK)
2013 - 2015
Master of Science in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, specialization in Psychopathology (cum laude)
Maastricht University (NL)2010 - 2013
Bachelor of Science in Psychology (cum laude)
University of Groningen (NL)Research Articles (Journals)
- Zaman, J., Chalkia, A., Zenses, A.-K., Bilgin, A. S., Beckers, T., Vervliet, B., & Boddez, Y. (). Perceptual variability: Implications for learning and generalization. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 28, 1–19. doi: 10.3758/s13423-020-01780-1.
- Zenses, A.-K., Lee, J. C., Plaisance, V., & Zaman, J. (). Differences in perceptual memory influence generalization patterns. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 136 (103777). doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2020.103777.
- Zenses, A.-K., Baeyens, F., Beckers, T., & Boddez, Y. (). Thought conditioning: Inducing and reducing thoughts about the aversive outcome in a fear conditioning procedure. Clinical Psychological Science, XXX. doi: 10.1177/2167702620954222.
- Chalkia, A., Schroyens, N., Leng, L., Vanhasbroeck, N., Zenses, A.-K., Van Oudenhove, L., & Beckers, T. (). No persistent attenuation of fear memories in humans: A registered replication of the reactivation-extinction effect. Cortex, 129, 496–509. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.017.
- Zenses, A.-K., Lenaert, B., Peigneux, P., Beckers, T., & Boddez, Y. (). Sleep deprivation increases threat beliefs in human fear conditioning. Journal of Sleep Research, 29 (e12873). doi: 10.1111/jsr.12873.
- Boddez, Y., Buabang, E. K., Zenses, A.-K., & Descheemaeker, M. (). Commentary: Sleep Deprivation Promotes Habitual Control over Goal-Directed Control: Behavioral and Neuroimaging Evidence. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12 (82). doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00082.