Anka Slana Ozimič

Assistant professor of Cognitive Science
Department of Psychology
University of Ljubljana
Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel.: +386 1 241 1175
email: anka.slana@ff.uni-lj.si

Anka Slana Ozimič, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of cognitive science at the University of Ljubljana, where she teaches cognitive neuroscience (lectures) and cognitive psychology (lab course). She holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience, a master's degree in cognitive science, and a university degree in social pedagogy. She is a member of the Mind & Brain Lab at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts. She is active in the field of cognitive neuroscience and uses a combination of behavioral and fMRI experiments to study cognitive processes related to working memory and cognitive control. She is a member of multiple professional organizations and an editor of eSinapsa, an online journal for scientists, experts, and neuroscience enthusiasts.

Bibliography

Full bibliography is available here.

Education

2014 - 2020 PhD Neuroscience, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine
Topic: Maintenance of individual features and integrated information in visuo-spatial working memory, pdf
Supervisor: dr. Grega Repovš

2010 - 2013 M. Sc. Cognitive Science, University of Ljubljana and University of Vienna
Thesis: The effect of harmonic context on the perception of pitch class, pdf
Supervisor: dr. Grega Repovš (University of Ljubljana)
Co-supervisor: dr. Bruno Gingras (University of Vienna)

2004 - 2010 B. A. & M.A. Social Pedagogy, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education
Thesis: Compulsive overeating factors [Dejavniki kompulzivnega prenajedanja]
Supervisor: dr. Olga Poljšak-Škraban

Teaching

MEi:CogSci - Middle European Interdisciplinary Master Programme in Cognitive Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Advanced cognitive neuroscience - lectures (2020 - )
• Advanced cognitive neuroscience - Laboratory course (2016-2018)
• Cognitive psychology 1 - Laboratory course (2014 - 2018)
• Statistical analysis II - Laboratory course (2014/2015, 2015/2016)

Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Cognitive psychology - Laboratory Course (2014 - )

Membership in professional organisations

• Slovenian Association for Cognitive Science [Slovensko društvo za kognitivno znanost], link
• SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Association [Slovensko društvo za nevroznanost], link
• FENS, Federation of European Neuroscience Society, link
• OHBM, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, link
• Psychonomic society, link

Editorial service

• eSiNAPSA, ISSN 2232-4178, editorial board member (2015–)

Research

The list of projects financed by ARRS is avaibalbe here.

Current research projects

• Multimodal study of cognitive control (fMR, EEG, behavioral)
• Multimodal study of working memory (fMR, EEG, behavioral)
• Effect of acute hypoglycaemia on cognitive processes in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, more
• Neuroeconomy: the effect of incentives on decision making (in collaboration with Facutly of Economics, University of Ljubljana)

Past projects

• Brain on vacation
• Eye tracking in girls with Rett Syndrome
• Early detection and rational therapy of dementia: role of biomarkers (in cooperation with Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana)
• GABA-A receptor subunits in the amygdala of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
  Department for Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austia
• Oligodendroglial response in surgical specimens of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
  Department for Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austia
• The effect of harmonic context on the perception of pitch class
  Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
• Neurophysiological Correlates of Working Memory for Rhythm
  Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana

Additional research interests

• Social and affective neuroscience
• Neurological disorders
• Music cognition