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

Carina Ufer, Fabian Schneider, Helen Blank (2026). The Influence of Prior Precision on the Inference of Hidden Causes. bioRxiv (preprint).

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Carina Ufer, Helen Blank (2024). Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability. iScience, 110611.

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Carina Ufer, Helen Blank (2023). Multivariate analysis of brain activity patterns as a tool to understand predictive processes in speech perception. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.

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Julius Krumbiegel, Carina Ufer, Helen Blank (2022). Influence of voice properties on vowel perception depends on speaker context. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, 820-834.

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