Experimental psychology & cognitive neurosciences
Faculty of Psychology
Post-doctoral Researcher
Dr Mirela Dittrich-Dubravac is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Psychology. She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Bern in 2021, where she investigated how cognitive control develops in children and how it shapes memory. She then conducted research at Texas A&M University (USA) with an earlyPostdoc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, focusing on the interactions between cognition and emotion.
After returning to Switzerland in 2023, she continued her research in cognitive psychology and completed further training in machine learning. Today, she combines her expertise in memory and artificial intelligence to develop evidence-based teaching and learning tools that promote effective learning.
Research focus
My research focuses on cognitive control and memory. I study how we control our thoughts and actions, how these abilities evolve with experience, and how they shape what we remember over time.
Research groups
2025-03
| Journal of Cognition
DOI: 10.5334/joc.437
Journal article
2024-05
| Cognition and Emotion
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2300752
Journal article
Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias
2024-02
| Cognition and Emotion
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2317917
Journal article
Peer-reviewed
2024-02
| Personality and Individual Differences
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2023.112494
Journal article
2023-08
| Journal of Vision
DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.9.5662
conference-poster
2023-07
| Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
DOI: 10.1177/17470218221132846
Journal article
2023-04
| Acta Psychologica
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103874
Journal article
2023-03
| Frontiers in Cognition
DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2023.1125700
Journal article
2023-02
| 2023 Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5WXCT
conference-poster
2022-11
| 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
DOI: 10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.24346543
conference-poster
2022-09
| Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
DOI: 10.1037/cns0000342
Journal article
2022-06
| British Journal of Developmental Psychology
DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12403
Journal article
2021-01
dissertation-thesis
2020-11
| 61th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
DOI: 10.7892/boris.148457
conference-poster
2020-08
| PLOS ONE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238221
Journal article
2020-01
| AIMS Neuroscience
DOI: 10.3934/neuroscience.2021002
Journal article
2019-08
| European Conference on Developmental Psychology
DOI: 10.7892/BORIS.133662
conference-poster
2019-06
| 14th Annual Meeting Clinical Neuroscience Bern
DOI: 10.7892/BORIS.134662
conference-poster
Functions at UniDistance Suisse
Faculty of Psychology
- Post-doctoral Researcher
Experimental psychology & cognitive neurosciences
- Post-doctoral Researcher