Christopher L. Zerr

Christopher L. Zerr
Washington University in St. Louis | WUSTL , Wash U · Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

PhD

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Introduction
My interest is in understanding episodic and autobiographical memory using a combination of behavioral techniques and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Specifically, I am interested in examining individual differences in long-term memory, with a current focus on the relation between how quickly people learn information and how well they remember and forget it over time.
Additional affiliations
June 2015 - June 2020
Washington University in St. Louis
Position
  • PhD Student
January 2015 - May 2015
Truman State University
Position
  • Teaching Assistant for Introductory Statistics
August 2014 - December 2014
Truman State University
Position
  • Teaching Assistant for Experimental Psychology
Education
June 2015 - June 2020
Washington University in St. Louis
Field of study
  • Brain, Behavior, and Cognition
August 2011 - May 2015
Truman State University
Field of study
  • Psychology, Statistics

Publications

Publications (12)
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People differ in how quickly they learn information and how long they remember it, yet individual differences in learning abilities within healthy adults have been relatively neglected. In two studies, we examined the relation between learning rate and subsequent retention using a new foreign-language paired-associates task (the learning-efficiency...
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Heart rate variability (HRV), the change in the time intervals between adjacent heartbeats, is an emergent property of interdependent regulatory systems that operate on different time scales to adapt to challenges and achieve optimal performance. This article briefly reviews neural regulation of the heart, and its basic anatomy, the cardiac cycle,...
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Recent studies suggest a significant role for context in controlling the acquisition and extinction of simple operant responding. The present experiments examined the contextual control of a heterogeneous behavior chain. Rats first learned a chain in which a discriminative stimulus set the occasion for a procurement response (e.g., pulling a chain)...
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The purpose of this article is to review the evidence for the efficacy of treating major depressive disorder with neurofeedback using an electroencephalogram (EEG) and/or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), as well as with biofeedback using electromyography (EMG) and heart rate variability (HRV). We summarized 33 peer-reviewed manuscripts...
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World War II was a cataclysmic event that consumed people from many countries for at least 6 years. We discuss a large-scale study of how people from 11 nations remember the war, including 8 Allied and 3 Axis countries. The study showed dramatic differences in how people of the former Soviet Union and those of the other 10 countries remembered the...
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People differ in how quickly they learn information and how long they remember it, and these two variables are correlated such that people who learn more quickly tend to retain more of the newly learned information. Zerr and colleagues [2018. Learning efficiency: Identifying individual differences in learning rate and retention in healthy adults. P...
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Heart rate variability (HRV) is the fluctuation in time between successive heartbeats and is defined by interbeat intervals. Researchers have shown that short-term (∼5-min) and long-term (≥24-h) HRV measurements are associated with adaptability, health, mobilization, and use of limited regulatory resources, and performance. Long-term HRV recordings...
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Most research on long-term memory uses an experimental approach whereby participants are assigned to different conditions, and condition means are the measures of interest. This approach has demonstrated repeatedly that conditions that slow the rate of learning tend to improve later retention. A neglected question is whether aggregate findings at t...

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