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M. Sc. Nikol Tsenkova

Research Assistant

 Portrait Nikol Tsenkova

Contact

Tel.: +49 (0) 641 99 26063

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Room F 115
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Department 06 Psychology und Sport Science
Developmental Psychology
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 F
35394 Giessen

 

Research Interests

 

  • Developmental changes in categorization of emotion facial expression across the lifespan

  • Use of eye-tracking for identifying visual attention patterns in terms of eye movements and gaze activity

  • Social cognition skills (Empathy and Theory of Mind) in typically developed and clinical samples

  • Neuroscientific methods for studying brain processes (fMRI, EEG)

  • Implementation of neuroimaging meta-analyses

 

Curriculum vitae

 

  • Since 05/2022 – Research Fellow at the department of Developmental Psychology, Justus Liebig University (JLU), Giessen

  • 10/2021 – 03/2022: Neurofeedback Assistant at “Praxis Jones”, Stuttgart

  • 03/2021 – 07/2021: Research Assistant at the Department of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Friedrich Schiller University (FSU), Jena

  • 10/2019 – 04/2022 Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Friedrich Schiller University (FSU), Jena

  • 10/2013 – 07/2017 Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Psychology, New Bulgarian University (NBU), Sofia

 

 

Publications

Tsenkova, N., Bahn, D., Kauschke, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2025).
Developmental differences in perceiving arousal and valence
from dynamically unfolding emotional expressions.
PLoS One, 20(8), e0329554.

Bahn, D., Türk, D.B., Tsenkova, N., Schwarzer, G., Võ, M.L.H., &
Kauschke, C. (2025). Processing of scene grammer inconsistencies in
children with Developmental Language Disorder. Brain Sciences 15 (2), 139.