Peter Klaver, Prof. Dr.
Category Persons
Head of Centre for Research and Knowledge Transfer / Professor
- Telephone
- +41 44 317 11 54
- peter.klaver [at] hfh.ch
- Room
- 333
- Organizational Unit
- Zentrum Forschung und Wissenstransfer
- Study Courses
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- Schulische Heilpädagogik
Tätigkeit an der HfH
- Member of the Executive Board of the University
- Member of the Sounding Board Researchers of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
- Supervisory member of the Developmental Science Network Zurich
- Supervisory member of the Network Research Special Education
- Member of the Commission R&D of the Chamber PH of swissuniversities
- Mentor in the programme Mentoring fff
- Reviewer and supervisor doctorate in the field of psychology
- Supervision of Master's theses in special education
Profil
- Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich (since 2011)
- Senior lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom (2015-2018)
- Member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zurich (2011-2015) and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, United Kingdom (2016-2018)
- Senior Assistant at the Department of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich (2010-2015)
- Research Group Leader at the Centre for MR Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich (2009-2010)
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for MR Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich (2006-2009)
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich (2005-2006)
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the Epiclinic, University Hospitals Bonn (2000-2004)
Ausbildung
- Habilitation in Psychology at the University of Zurich in 2010
- Doctorate (Dr rer. nat.) in Psychology and Neuroscience at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in 2001
- MSc Psychology at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in 1995
Forschung zu
- Developmental disorders of learning, memory and higher visual cognition: How do psychological, biological and environmental factors contribute to the risks of learning and memory disorders and visual cognition at school age and what are the resources and opportunities for intervention?
- Development of learning, memory and higher visual cognition: How do psychological, biological and environmental factors contribute to the development of learning, memory and visual cognition in school-age children?
- Foundations of learning, memory and visual cognition: What psychological, biological and environmental factors contribute to learning, memory and visual cognition?
- Biopsychological research methods, because without method development there is no progress
- REVISA – Recognition of Visual Impairment in (Pre)School Age Category Project 01.09.2019 31.07.2021Project ManagementMartina Schweizer
Zeitschriftenartikel (peer-reviewed)
- (2016).Inter-hemispheric connectivity of the fusiform gyrus supports memory consolidation for faces.European Journal of Neuroscience,43(9),1137–1145.
- (2015).Developmental changes in gamma-Aminobutyric acid levels in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Translational Psychiatry,5(6),Article e589.
- (2015).Effects of steroid hormones on sex differences in cerebral perfusion.PLoS ONE,10(9),Article e0135827.
- (2015).Emotional face expression modulates occipital-frontal effective connectivity during memory formation in a bottom-up fashion.Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience,9,Article 90.
- (2015).Occipital cortical thickness in very low birth weight born adolescents predicts altered neural specialization of visual semantic category related neural networks.Neuropsychologia,67,41–54.
- (2015).Subcortical glutamate mediates the reduction of short-range functional connectivity with age in a developmental cohort.Journal of Neuroscience,35(22),8433–8441.
- (2014).Age dependent electroencephalography changes in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).Clinical Neurophysiology,125(8),1626–1638.
- (2014).Brain volumes predict neurodevelopment in adolescents after surgery for congenital heart disease.Brain,137,268–276.
- (2014).Hippocampal and posterior parietal contributions to developmental increases in visual short-term memory capacity.Cortex,59,95–102.
- (2013).Behind the scenes: How visual memory load biases selective attention during processing of visual streams.Psychophysiology,50(11),1133–1146.
- (2013).Coupling between resting cerebral perfusion and EEG.Brain Topography,26(3),442–457.
- (2013).Neural activity in the hippocampus predicts individual visual short-term memory capacity.Hippocampus,23(7),606–615.
- (2012).Frontal GABA level change during working memory.PLoS ONE,7(4),Article e31933.
- (2011).Congenital prosopagnosia: multistage anatomical and functional deficits in face processing circuitry.Journal of Neurology,258(5),770–782.
- (2011).Microstructural development: organizational differences of the fibre architecture between children and adults in dorsal and ventral visual streams.Human Brain Mapping,32(6),935–946.
- (2011).The left occipitotemporal system in reading: disruption of focal fMRI connectivity to left inferior frontal and inferior parietal language areas in children with dyslexia.Neuroimage,54(3),2426–2436.
- (2011).Visual working memory capacity and stimulus categories: a behavioral and electrophysiological investigation.Experimental Brain Research,209(4),501–513.
- (2010).Distribution of motor unit potential velocities in the biceps brachii of sprinters and endurance athletes during prolonged dynamic exercises at low force levels.journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology,20(6),1115–1124.
- (2010).Distribution of motor unit potential velocities in the biceps brachii of sprinters and endurance athletes during short static contractions at low force levels.journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology,20(6),1107–1114.
- (2010).Learning to appreciate others: Neural development of cognitive perspective taking.Neuroimage,50(2),837–846.
- (2010).Simultaneous EEG-fMRI during a working memory task: Modulations in low and high frequency bands.PLoS ONE,5(4),Article e10298.
- (2009).Children with dyslexia lack multiple specializations along the visual word-form (VWF) system.Neuroimage,47(4),1940–1949.
- (2009).Dysfunctional neural network of spatial working memory contributes to developmental dyscalculia.Neuropsychologia,47(13),2859–2865.
- (2009).Oxytocin makes a face in memory familiar.Journal of Neuroscience,29(1),38–42.
- (2008).Dorsal stream development in motion and structure-from-motion perception.Neuroimage,39(4),1815–1823.
- (2008).Featural and configural face processing strategies: evidence from an fMRI study.Neuroreport,19(3),287–291.
- (2008).Optimized voxel-based morphometry in children with developmental dyscalculia.Neuroimage,39(1),417–422.
- (2008).Role of dorsal and ventral stream development in biological motion perception.Neuroreport,19(18),1763–1767.
- (2008).Strongly lateralized activation in language fMRI of atypical dominant patients - Implications for presurgical work-up.Epilepsy Research,80(1),67–76.
- (2007).Declarative memory formation in hippocampal sclerosis: An intracranial ERP study.Neuroreport,18(4),317–321.
- (2007).Distribution of motor unit potential velocities in short static and prolonged dynamic contractions at low forces: Use of the within-subject's skewness and standard deviation variables.European Journal of Applied Physiology,101(5),647–658.
- (2007).Functional dissociations in top-down control dependent neural repetition priming.Neuroimage,34(4),1733–1743.
- (2006).The effect of word concreteness in recognition memory.Neuroimage,1413-1421(32),Article 3.
- (2005).Phase-locking characteristics of limbic P3 responses in hippocampal sclerosis.Neuroimage,24(4),980–989.
- (2005).Rhinal-hippocampal coupling during declarative memory formation: dependence on item characteristics.Neuroscience Letters,407(1),37–41.
- (2005).Word imageability affects the hippocampus in recognition memory.Hippocampus,15(6),704–712.
- (2004).A new approach in clinical neuropsychology to the assessment of spatial working memory: The block suppression test.Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology,26(1),105–114.
- (2004).Neural bases of cognitive ERPs: More than phase reset.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,16(9),1595–1604.
- (2004).Neural correlates of successful declarative memory formation and retrieval: the anatomical overlap.Cortex,40(1),200–202.
- (2004).Process dissociation between contextual retrieval and item recognition.NeuroReport,15(18),2729–2733.
- (2004).Temporal and cerebellar brain regions that support both declarative memory formation and retrieval.Cerebral Cortex,14(3),256–267.
- (2004).Using visual advance information: an event-related functional MRI study.Brain Research: Cognitive Brain Research,20(2),242–255.
- (2003).Intrasubject reproducibility of presurgical language lateralization and mapping using fMRI.Neurology,60(6),969–975.
- (2003).Is synchronized neuronal gamma activity relevant for selective attention?Brain Research Reviews,42(3),265–272.
- (2003).Menstrual cycle-dependent neural plasticity in the adult human brain is hormone, task, and region specific.Journal of Neuroscience,23(9),3790–3795.
- (2003).Rhinal-hippocampal theta coherence during declarative memory formation: interaction with gamma synchronization?European Journal of Neuroscience,17(5),1082–1088.
- (2002).Brief communication: Human scalp recorded sigma activity is modulated by slow EEG oscillations during deep sleep.International Journal of Neuroscience,112(7),893–900.
- (2002).Covariation of spectral and nonlinear EEG measures with alpha biofeedback.International Journal of Neuroscience,112(9),1047–1057.
- (2002).Human declarative memory formation: Segregating rhinal and hippocampal contributions.Hippocampus,12(4),514–519.
- (2002).Suppression of EEG gamma activity may cause the attentional blink.Consciousness & Cognition,11(1),114–122.
- (2002).The interaction of rhinal cortex and hippocampus in human declarative memory formation.Reviews in the Neurosciences,13(4),299–312.
- (2001).Human memory formation is accompanied by rhinal-hippocampal coupling and decoupling.Nature Neuroscience,4(12),1259–1264.
- (2001).Language mapping in less than 15 minutes: real-time functional MRI during clinical investigation.Neuroimage,14(3),585–594.
- (2001).Working memory processes show different degrees of lateralization: Evidence from event-related potentials.Psychophysiology,38(3),425–439.
- (1999).An event-related brain potential correlate of visual short-term memory.NeuroReport,10(10),2001–2005.
- (1999).Representations in human visual short-term memory: an event-related brain potential study.Neuroscience Letters,268(2),65–68.
Bücher und Buchbeiträge
Weitere Publikationen
Konferenzbeiträge
- Self-Regulation Development in At-Risk Families: The Importance of Family Resources[Konferenzvortrag].EARLI SIG5 2022 Conference, Learning and Development in Early Childhood. Changing times in ECEC: New Opportunities for fostering development and improving sustainability,Utrecht, Niederlande.
- Neural firing in the medial temporal lobe reflects visual working memory workload and capacity[Poster].Workshop on intracranial recordings in humans (WIRED): Epilepsy, DBS,Paris, Frankreich.
- Medial temporal lobe neural firing is associated with working memory workload and individual capacity[Poster].OHBM Annual Meeting,Rom, Italien.
- Hippocampal connectivity volumes predict intellectual functions in adolescents after neonatal surgery for congenital heart disease[Poster].European Conference of Cognitive Neuropsychology,Bressanone, Italy.
- Visual working memory load and capacity dependent processing of task and distractor items in a fronto-parietal-hippocampal network[Konferenzabstract].Annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR),Seattle, USA.
- Emotion sensitivity and task instruction affect brain activity and working memory performance for emotional faces[Konferenzvortrag].German Psychological Society Conference for Experimentally Working Psychologists (TeaP),Hildesheim, Germany.
- Spatial working memory in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder[Poster].International Conference on Basic and Clinical Multimodal Imaging (BaCI),Geneva, Schweiz.
- Reduced basal ganglia GABA in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder[Poster].International society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM),Salt Lake City, USA.
- Hippocampal activity predicts successful object-location binding during short-term memory maintenance[Poster].Neuroscience 2012,New Orleans, LA, USA.
- Memory binding in hippocampus predicts successful associative memory in children[Poster].42th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience,New Orleans, LA, USA.
- Comparing MELODIC and the Conn toolbox and the impact on physiological artifact correction in resting state fMRI using DRIFTER[Poster].29th European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB),Lisbon, Portugal.
- The hippocampus and posterior parietal cortex: Two interacting brain regions during maintenance.[Poster].Amsterdam Memory Slam,Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Individual differences affect the influence of emotional face expression on visual short-term memory and brain activity[Konferenzvortrag].Amsterdam Memory Slam,Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Life span differences in episodic memory (EM): retrieval processes in children, adolescents and young adults[Poster].Amsterdam Memory Slam,Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Life span differences in episodic memory: Different behavioural expression in children and adults is expected to reflect ongoing maturation processes in neural network[Poster].ZNZ Symposium,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Right hippocampal activity predicts performance in short-term maintenance of object-location associations[Poster].ZNZ Symposium,Zürich, Schweiz.
- (2011).Neurodevelopment of the visual system in typically developing children.In O. Braddick, J. Atkinson, & G. Innocenti (Hrsg.),Gene Expression to Neurobiology and Behavior: Human Brain Development and Developmental Disorders,189,113–136.
- The lateral parietal cortex plays a pivotal role in episodic buffer: An fMRI study[Poster].Neuroscience 2011,Washington, D.C., USA.
- Efficient strategic processing in working memory implemented by a fronto-temporal neural network, promotes episodic memory formation[Poster].ZNZ Symposium,Zürich, Schweiz.
- The lateral parietal cortex plays a pivotal role in episodic buffer: An fMRI study[Poster].ZNZ Symposium,Zürich, Schweiz.
- (Almost) fully developed high order visual neural networks in premature born adolescents[Konferenzvortrag].Research Conference of the European Society Foundation - Gene expression to neurobiology and behavior: human brain development and developmental disorders,Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spanien.
- Development of higher visual function - normal visual perception and visuo-motor deficits[Konferenzvortrag].International Conference of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Neuropediatrics (ESMRN),Zürich, Schweiz.
- Neural mechanisms of memory: The role of sensory and conceptual information on memory operations[Konferenzvortrag].Congress of the Swiss Society of Psychology: Differences, Diversity, and Change,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Distinct effect of selective attention on repetition priming: an event-related fMRI and intracranial ERP study[Konferenzvortrag].Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM),Budapest, Hungary.
Andere Referate/Vorträge (im Berufsfeld, Vorlesung an Hochschule etc.)
- Functional and structural connectivity of the hippocampus in the developing brain.CUBIC conference at Brunel University of London,London, UK.
- Working memory in the hippocampus: developmental evidence.Brain and Behavior Group meeting, University of Surrey, School of Psychology,Guildford, UK.
- Testing of mobile app in the prevention and recovery of learning difficulties of children and adolescents with a history of neonatal hypoxia.Annual meeting of the Swiss Academy of Childhood Development Symposium,Aarau, Schweiz.
- Visual working memory in typical and atypical development.Autumn Research Seminar,Stirling, UK.
- Visual working memory: typical and atypical development.School seminar at the University of Surrey, School of Psychology,Guildford, UK.
- Do atypical predictors account for atypical development?EGPN Early Years workshop,Guildford, UK.
- Probabilistic tractography: a method for studying (atypical) development.Brain and Behaviour Research Group, University of Surrey, School of Psychology,Guildford, UK.
- Typical and atypical networks of memory and visual cognition in the developing brain.Development Research Group meeting, University of Surrey, School of Psychology,Guildford, UK.
- Typical and atypical networks of memory and visual cognition in the developing brain.Zentrum für Integrative Humanphysiologie, Lunch Seminar,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Die Entwicklung des Gehirns sichtbar machen.BrainFair: Gehirn & Technologie,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Bildgebung des heranwachsenden Gehirns.BrainFair - Brain & Technology,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Imaging the developing brain.Research Brain Imaging Seminar,Bonn, Deutschland.
- Remembering the song of your life.Sendung "Mein Lied", Radio SRF1,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Social memory and oxytocin.Facelab Meeting, Institut für Psychologie, Universität Bern,Bern, Schweiz.
- Aktives Lernen und Gedächtnis.Workshop, ZHAW,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Neuronale Mechanismen des Gedächtnisses: Ein Transfer in die Praxis.Regionalkonferenz: Schulen auf dem Mutschellen,Berikon, Schweiz.
- Emotion und Gedächtnis: Wie sich unser Gehirn emotionale Ereignisse erinnert.BrainFair Vortrag in Sekundarschule Rämibühl,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Memory systems.Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar, Institut de psychologie, Université de Lausanne,Lausanne, Schweiz.
- Event-related potentials and memory formation.Wirtschafttheoretisches Seminar "Neuroeconomics",Bonn, Deutschland.
- Brain functions in prematurely born children.Forschungskolloquium,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Chilean miners.Zürich, Schweiz.
- Typical and atypical networks of memory and cognition in the developing brain.Brain Research and Development Meeting,Zürich, Schweiz.
- Visual working memory in the medial temporal lobe.Network of intracranial research in epilepsy,Zürich, Schweiz.