Exploring Subjective Experience
Hi! I’m Katerina, currently a PhD researcher in cognitive science interested in how people experience and perceive the world differently. Over the years, I’ve studied topics ranging from how emotions shape our sense of time to how cognitive load influences cooperation and brain synchrony during social interaction. Currently, my research focuses on mental imagery, sensory sensitivity, and visual perception within a predictive processing framework, using behavioral experiments, psychophysics, and pupillometry to study individual differences in subjective experience.
Research Highlights
Visual Perception & Individual Differences
Investigating how mental imagery and sensory sensitivity influence bottom-up and top-down integration in visual perception.
Time Perception & Emotion
Exploring how emotional experiences shape our perception of time.
Side Projects
Impact of image memorability on time perception, Metacognitive beliefs in adaptive learning, Eye-tracking studies on the prolonged grief paradox