ABOUT ME

Hi, I am Tatia, a cognitive neuroscientist broadly interested in the brain’s computational principles of attention, value learning, and social cognition. My work combines behavioural experiments, EEG, and computational modelling to understand how neural dynamics shape the way we perceive, learn, and interact.

Currently, as a postdoctoral researcher at UCL, I am investigating how value learning influences low-level visual processing, in particular, how rewards bias rhythmic attentional sampling and shape the competition between different streams of sensory information.

During my PhD, I studied how people use subtle expectation violations as communicative signals, and how these strategies compare to more traditional theory of mind mechanisms. I also collaborated on projects exploring the sense of agency and sensory attenuation.

I am always open to learning from other directions. I love collaborating across disciplines and often find that fresh insights often come from the edges where fields overlap.

Outside the lab, I am passionate about street and analogue photography, urban exploration, and graphic design.

Here is my Google Scholar profile, and I am also active in LinkedIn, Research gate and Bluesky.

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