Anka Slana

dr. Anka Slana
Researcher
Department of Psychology
University of Ljubljana
Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel.: +386 1 241 1175
email: anka.slana@psy.ff.uni-lj.si

Education

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

• Cognitive psychology 1 - Laboratory course (from 2014 on)
• Advanced cognitive neuroscience - Laboratory course (new in 2016/2017)
• Statistical analysis II - Laboratory course (2014/2015, 2015/2016)

Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Cognitive psychology - Laboratory Course (from 2014 on)

Membership in professional organisations

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

Editorial service

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

Current research projects

• Mechanisms of functional brain integration underlying efficient cognitive control (project funded by Slovenian research agency)
• Brain on vacation
• Multimodal study of working memory (project funded by Slovenian research agency)
• NeCo, Neuroeconomy (in collaboration with Facutly of Economics, University of Ljubljana)

Past projects

• 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

• Working memory
• Social and affective neuroscience
• Neurological disorders
• Music cognition