Ava Kiai
Hauptforschungsgebiete
- Domain-general mechanisms of implicit & statistical learning
- Auditory sequence processing
- Time perception
- Neural & cognitive representations of syntax and hierarchical linguistic structure
Vita
Ausbildung
2016-2018 | Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales/Ecole normale superieure, Paris Master of Science with honors (mention ”bien”) Department of Cognitive Studies |
2011-2015 | New York University, New York Bachelor of Arts with honors , College of Arts and Science |
Werdegang
10/2018 - Present | Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt Neuroscience Department Doctoral Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Lucia Melloni |
02/2018 – 09/2018 | Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt Neuroscience Department Masters Student Masters Thesis: ”Does What We See Determine How Long We [Think] We See?: Investigating the role of visual object category on the perception of duration” |
05/2017 – 01/2018 | NeuroSpin, INSERM/CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Brain Dynamics Group Masters Student Supervisor: Dr. Virginie van Wassenhove |
07/2014 – 09/2014 | Conceptual Development & Social Cognition Lab, NYU Undergraduate Research Assistant Supervisor: Dr. Marjorie Rhodes |
03/2013 – 05/2013 | Davachi Lab, NYU Undergraduate Research Assistant Supervisor: Dr. Lila Davachi |
Publikationen
Monographien
Kiai, Ava. (2019) To protect credibility in science, banish publish or perish. Nature Human Behavior, 3, 1017-1018. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0741-0.
Kiai A. (2018) Pinker’s (1994) The Language Instinct. In: Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978 − 3 − 319 − 16999−6633−1
Kiai A. (2018) Steven Pinker. In: Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolu- tionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978 − 3 − 319 − 16999 − 6632 − 1
Auszeichnungen & Stipendien
Stipendien und Preise
| 2015 | Deans Undergraduate Research Fund Grant ($1,000), NYU College of Arts & Science |
| 2014 | NYU French Department Book Award (top student in senior seminar) |
Projekte
- The structure of subjective experience
Consciousness is one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of human nature, or perhaps nature at large. Our lives dwell in our conscious experiences: this is where we experience love, we feel the ‘chills’ with a good piece of ...
- The effect of implicit segmentation on perceived rate of continuous speech
Humans are able to spontaneously and rapidly extract information about the temporal structure of event sequences (Maheu et al. 2019). Statistical learning is one mechanism by which the brain is able to segment structured sequences, such as ...