Carina Ufer

Carina Ufer

PhD Student

Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

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. She identified opposing serial dependence effects of stimulus and choice history in auditory vowel streams.

Publications

2026
The Precision Hierarchy Hypothesis: A Unifying Framework to Explain Opposing Serial Effects
Carina Ufer, Helen Blank
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience2026
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The precision hierarchy hypothesis: A unifying framework to explain opposing serial effects
Carina Ufer, Helen Blank
PsyArXiv2026Preprint
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The Influence of Prior Precision on the Inference of Hidden Causes
Carina Ufer, Fabian Schneider, Helen Blank
bioRxiv2026Preprint
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2024
Multivariate analysis of brain activity patterns as a tool to understand predictive processes in speech perception
Carina Ufer, Helen Blank
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(9), 1117-11332024
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Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability
Carina Ufer, Helen Blank
iScience, 27(9), 1106112024
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2022
Influence of voice properties on vowel perception depends on speaker context
Julius Krumbiegel, Carina Ufer, Helen Blank
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(2), 820-8342022
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