NACH OBEN


Team



Team Neu

Leitung


Prof. Dr. Helen Blank

Raum: IB 6/109
Tel.: 0234 32 - 21456
Students are requested to direct any inquiries regarding their studies (e.g., examinations, seminar admission, compensation for disadvantages) to my office.
ORCID-iD: 0000-0002-5824-0811
E-Mail

© RUB, Marquard

PhD Studierende


M.Sc. Psych. Janika Becker



In her PhD, Janika is interested in statistical learning. Before that, she also wrote her Master’s thesis in our lab and did a pupil study to investigate how the pupil reacts to expected (and unexpected) auditory stimuli. She obtained her Master’s in Psychology from University Lübeck. In her PhD she explores how we learn prior expectations from auditory sequences, using pupillometry and EEG.


M.Sc. Psych. Fabian Schneider



Fabian is interested in predictive coding as a way of bridging the gaps between language comprehension, memory maintenance, and updating. Before joining the lab, he obtained a graduate degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from Radboud University and the Donders Institute as well as an undergraduate degree in Language, Literature, Culture from the University of Gießen. In his PhD, he aims to improve our understanding of how semantic priors are represented, used, and updated.


M.Sc. Psych. Philipp Schumann



Philipp is interested in how the human brain uses priors and contextual information in perceptual processes. Before joining the lab, he obtained his Master's degree in Neurocognitive Psychology from the University of Oldenburg and wrote his thesis in Gießen, using RSA to investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of visual object aesthetics. In his PhD, he applies RSA to fMRI data in order to explore how verbally induced social priors affect the perception and interpretation of speech as part of the SFB 289.


M.Sc. Psych. Carina Ufer



Carina has a genuine interest in the predictive coding framework. She obtained a Master’s in Cognitive Science from the University of Vienna and a Bachelor’s in Applied Cognitive and Media Science from the University of Duisburg-Essen. In her PhD, she investigates the effect of voice priors on the perception of speech.


Master Studierende + Studentische Hilfskräfte


Kristin Derben

Kris is a lab Student assistant and supports us with EEG recordins and recruitment


Ehemalige Labormitglieder


Annika is interested in how and to what extent prior information influences face perception. In her PhD, she combined computational models via representational similarity analysis (RSA) with fMRI data to understand how the human brain combines scene priors with faces and used eye tracking to test how priors shape active information sampling during face regognition.


Mark was a student assistant in the lab. He studies Psychology at the University Hamburg and currently conducts several pupil studies in the eyetracker lab.


 Eylül was an intern in the lab and helped to collect data for pupil studies in the eyetracker lab and contributed to a literature search on predictive sequences.


Franziska was a student assistant in our lab and supported us with data collection.


Julius worked on the effects of cross-modal priors on speech perception and their computational mechanisms.


Marvin was an intern and student assistant in the lab and conducted a pupil study.