Janika Becker

Janika Becker

PhD Student

Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

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 the University Lübeck. In her PhD, she explores how we learn prior expectations from auditory sequences, using pupillometry and EEG.

Publications

2026
Sequential prioritization of expected and unexpected information in visual processing
bioRxiv2026Preprint
2024
The pupil dilation response as an indicator of visual cue uncertainty and auditory outcome surprise
European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(10), 2686-27012024
Pupil diameter as an indicator of sound pair familiarity after statistically structured auditory sequence
Scientific Reports, 14(1), 87392024