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). Human vision sequentially prioritizes expected and unexpected information. bioRxiv (preprint).

DOI

(2024). Pupil diameter as an indicator of sound pair familiarity after statistically structured auditory sequence. Scientific Reports, 14, 8739.

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(2024). The pupil dilation response as an indicator of visual cue uncertainty and auditory outcome surprise. European Journal of Neuroscience, 1-16.

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