Physics: Cognitive Systems
Nina Coy
Physics: Cognitive Systems 

Dr. Nina Coy

Portrait: Nina Coy    Nina Coy
   Postdoctoral Researcher
   Dr. rer. nat. (Psychology)
   M.Sc. Psychology
   B.Sc. Psychology
   Phone: +49 371 531-38849
   Fax: +49 371 531-838849
   Room: Campus Reichenhainer Straße, Physikbau, C60.133
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Research interests

  • auditory perceptual processes: attention, prediction, (sensory) learning
  • electrophysiological (e.g. EEG) and behavioural methods (e.g. reaction times)

Academic education

  • 2020-2024: PhD student in the group "Cognitive and Biological Psychology", Leipzig University
  • 2020-2024: Graduate school "Max Planck School of Cognition", Leipzig
  • 2019-2020: Pre-Doc in graduate program "Max Planck School of Cognition", Leipzig
  • 2016-2018: Master of Science in Psychology, Leipzig University - Master thesis "The auditory evoked sustained potential as an indicator of regularity extraction and its attentional modulation"
  • 2013-2016: Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Leipzig University - Bachelor thesis "The role of absolute and relative pitch information in the active discrimination of complex tonal patterns"

Career path

Scholarships and Awards

  • 2024: Brain Products Young Scientist Award for a Distinguished Contribution in EEG Research
  • 2020-2024: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Max Planck School of Cognition) PhD position
  • 2016: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Research stay abroad (3 weeks) at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
  • 2015: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Research stay abroad (3 weeks) at University of Barcelona, Spain
  • 2014-2018: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Stipend for students

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Coy, N., Bendixen, A., Grimm, S., Roeber, U., & Schröger, E. (2024). Conditional deviant repetition in the oddball paradigm modulates processing at the level of P3a but not MMN. Psychophysiology, 61(6), e14545. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14545 [Open Access, Open Data]

Coy, N., Bendixen, A., Grimm, S., Roeber, U., & Schröger, E. (2023). Deviants violating higher-order auditory regularities can become predictive and facilitate behaviour. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(8), 2731-2750. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02763-9 [Open Access, Open Data]

Schröger, E., Roeber, U., & Coy, N. (2023). Markov chains as a proxy for the predictive memory representations underlying Mismatch Negativity (MMN). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1249413. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1249413 [Open Access]

Coy, N., Bendixen, A., Grimm, S., Roeber, U., & Schröger, E. (2022). Is the oddball just an odd-one-out? The predictive value of rule-violating events. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 5(3-4), 169-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2022.2094657 [Open Access, Open Data]

Coy, N., Bader, M., Schröger, E., & Grimm, S. (2021). Change detection of auditory tonal patterns defined by absolute versus relative pitch information. A combined behavioural and EEG study. PLoS One, 16(2), e0247495. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247495 [Open Access, Open Data]

Conference contributions

Coy, N., Bendixen, A., Grimm, S., Roeber, U., & Schröger, E. (2023, März). Predictive information based on conditional oddball repetition facilitates detection performance [Poster]. 65th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Trier, Deutschland.

Coy, N., Bader, M., Schröger, E., & Grimm S. (2018, Juni). Discriminating melodic patterns based on relative compared to absolute pitch information. An EEG study [Poster]. 8th Mismatch Negativity Conference, Helsinki, Finnland.

Coy, N., Bader, M., Schröger, E., & Grimm S. (2016, November). The role of relative pitch information in the active discrimination of complex tonal pattern [Poster]. Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference (ACNS), Port Stephens, Australien.

Reviewer activity

for peer-refereed journals:

  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

 

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