Ms Lauren Heidenreich

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Psychology

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences


PhD CandidateSupervised by Dr. Irina Baetu and Ass. Prof. Lyndsey Collins-PrainoI am a PhD student in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences Laboratory at the University of Adelaide. I am interested in the neurocognitive bases of associative learning. How people learn to associate events that regularly occur together fundamentally impacts cognition and behaviour. Many clinical presentations, including addiction, anxiety and Parkinson's disease can be described in terms of abnormal learning. Thus, understanding the properties of associative learning not only provides avenues for optimised learning in the general population, but also for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of clinical disorders. My research aims to increase our understanding of the mechanisms that generate normal and abnormal learning. To do this I combine stimulus-response learning paradigms with brain stimulation, electroencephalography and/or genetic testing. I also employ computational modelling techniques to elucidate underlying mechanisms.*Please note that I have gone by my married name (Foreman) in the below publications.

 

Poster presented at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society conference in Cairns, June 2019.
Poster presented at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society conference in Cairns, June 2019

 

Date Position Institution name
2017 - 2017 Tutor, Level 3 Learning & Behaviour University of Adelaide
2016 - 2016 Volunteer (Disability Centre) Company of Grace, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
2016 - 2016 Volunteer (Community Development) Source of Life, Kampala, Uganda
2014 - 2016 Research Assistant University of Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2013 Scholarship Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship University of Adelaide Australia $1,200

Date Institution name Country Title
2017 University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Psychology
2012 - 2015 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Psychological Science (1st Class Hons)

Year Citation
2025 Foreman, L., Child, B., Saywell, I., Collins-Praino, L., & Baetu, I. (2025). Cognitive reserve moderates the effect of COVID-19 on cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 171, 31 pages.
DOI Scopus1 WoS2 Europe PMC2
2024 Saywell, I., Foreman, L., Child, B., Phillips-Hughes, A. L., Collins-Praino, L., & Baetu, I. (2024). Influence of cognitive reserve on cognitive and motor function in α-synucleinopathies: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 161, 28 pages.
DOI Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC4
2023 Saywell, I., Child, B., Foreman, L., Collins‐Praino, L., & Baetu, I. (2023). Influence of cognitive reserve on cognitive and motor function in α‐synucleinopathies: A systematic review protocol. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1522(1), 15-23.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC2
2018 Baetu, I., Pitcher, J., Cohen-Woods, S., Lancer, B., Beu, N., Foreman, L., . . . Burns, N. (2018). Polymorphisms that affect GABA neurotransmission predict processing of aversive prediction errors in humans. NeuroImage, 176, 176-192.
DOI Scopus4 WoS5 Europe PMC4

Date Role Membership Country
2017 - ongoing - EEG Club, School of Psychology Australia

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