Yulia Oganian

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I am a cognitive neuroscientist, interested in auditory cognition and human communication, with a focus on speech comprehension. After a PhD in Psychology and Computational Neuroscience at the Freie Unviersity and Bernstein Center for Computational Neurosciences Berlin (Germany), I spent six years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California in San Francisco (USA). Since 2021, I am an independent research group leader at the University of Tuebingen, where I head the human verbal communication laboratory.  

I am interested in the extraction of linguistic information from sensory inputs, and in the role of predictive processes in adapting to the sensory variability inherent to dynamic communicative settings. I believe that understanding complex cognitive functions necessitates the integration of different experimental and analytic approaches. Therefore, I combine laboratory experiments employing controlled stimuli with naturalistic sensory stimuli that convey natural variation (e.g., natural speech), and map them to neural signals recorded using electrophysiology (M/EEG, intracranial EEG). A further research interest is the application of our findings to developmental conditions and age-related hearing loss.