Nina Purg

Researcher
Department of Psychology
University of Ljubljana
Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone.: +386 1 241 1174
Email: nina.purg@ff.uni-lj.si

Education

2017–2022 PhD Biomedicine (stream Neuroscience), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015–2016 MSc Neuroscience, University College London, UK
2012–2015 BSc Natural Sciences (Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences), University College London, UK

Research Experience

2017–ongoing Researcher, Mind & Brain Lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015–2016 Student researcher, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, UK
2014–2015 Research assistant, Neural Computation Lab, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, UK

Teaching

Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia:

• Laboratory course in Cognitive Psychology (2017–2018)
• Laboratory course in Cognitive Psychology (2021–2022)

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

• Laboratory course in Cognitive Psychology (2019–ongoing)
• Laboratory course in Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience (2021–ongoing)

Academy of fine arts and design, University of Ljubjana:

• Laboratory course in Cognitive Psychology (2019–ongoing)
  

Publications

• Purg, N., Demšar, J., and Repovš, G. (2022). autohrf-an R package for generating data-informed event models for general linear modeling of task-based fMRI data. Frontiers in Neuroimaging, 1:983324. doi: 10.3389/fnimg.2022.983324
• Kraljič, A., Matkovič, A., Purg, N., Demšar, J., and Repovš, G. (2022). Evaluation and comparison of most prevalent artifact reduction methods for EEG acquired simultaneously with fMRI. Frontiers in Neuroimaging, 1:968363. doi: 10.3389/fnimg.2022.968363
• Purg, N., Starc, M., Slana Ozimič, A., Kraljič, A., Matkovič, A., and Repovš, G. (2022). Neural evidence for different types of position coding strategies in spatial working memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16:821545. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.821545
• Purg, N., Slana Ozimič, A., and Repovš, G. (2022). The cognitive neuroscience of working memory and language. In Schwieter, J. W.,  and Wen, Z. (ed.). The Cambridge handbook of working memory and language (p. 120-142). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108955638
• Hauser, T. U., Eldar, E., Purg, N., Moutoussis, M., and Dolan, R. J. (2019). Distinct roles of dopamine and noradrenaline in incidental memory. The Journal of Neuroscience, 39(39), 7715-7721. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0401-19.2019
• Purg, N. (2018) O dinamičnih možganih ali kako nemirni so naši možgani v mirovanju. eSiNAPSA, no. 15. Available online: http://www.sinapsa.org/eSinapsa/stevilke/last/232/O_dinamicnih_mozganih_ali_kako_nemirni_so_nasi_mozgani_v_mirovanju
• Hauser, T., Moutoussis, M., Purg, N., Dayan, P., and Dolan, R. (2018). Beta-blocker propranolol modulates decision urgency during sequential information gathering. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38(32), 7170–7178. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0192-18.2018
• Hauser, T. U., Allen, M., Purg, N., Moutoussis, M., Rees, G., and Dolan, R. J. (2017). Noradrenaline blockade specifically enhances metacognitive performance. eLife, 6:e24901, 1-13. doi: 10.7554/eLife.24901
• Purg, N. (2017) Kako se naši možgani soočajo z obdelavo in združitvijo različnih virov informacij? eSiNAPSA, no. 13. Available online: http://sinapsa.org/eSinapsa/stevilke/2017-13/211/kako_se_nasi_mozgani_soocajo_z_obdelavo_in_zdruzitvijo_razlicnih_virov_informacij