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Researchers and Doctoral Students<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Kairi Kreegipuu, PhD<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Professor of Experimental Psychology, principal investigator in PRG1151 grant \u201ePre-attentive Information Processing in the Brain: Relationship to State and Trait Variables, and Behaviour\u201d (1.01.2021\u221231.12.2025) from Estonian Research Council<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tkairi.kreegipuu@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Kairi studies human information processing, including information input, attention and memory, and its relationships to different states humans may have (like emotions or fatigue). She also studies time perception, and mental health in variable conditions ranging from stress to high temperature. She works on relationships between environmental factors and mental health and she is also interested in reseach ethics. She has (co)supervised 7 doctoral dissertations and more than 30 master theses. ETIS<\/a> \/ GoogleScholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Liisi Ausmees, PhD<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Research Fellow in Personality and Social Psychology at UT, lecturer<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tliisi.ausmees@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Liisi\u2019s research centres on personality traits and emotional experience. Within the research project, Liisi mainly studies whether and how the stable individual differences in personality and emotions are linked to pre-attentive information processing. GoogleScholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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P\u00e4rtel Lippus, PhD<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Professor of Estonian Phonetics at UT<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpartel.lippus@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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P\u00e4rtel\u2019s research focuses on the Estonian systems of quantity and it\u2019s acquisition in first and second languages. ETIS<\/a> \/ GoogleScholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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J\u00fcri Allik, PhD<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Professor of Experimental Psychology, member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and Academia of Europaea<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tjuri.allik@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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J\u00fcri is a principal investigator in Attention, Brain and Cognition Unit. ETIS<\/a> \/ GoogleScholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Aire Raidvee, PhD<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Research Fellow of Experimental Psychology at UT<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taire.raidvee@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Aire\u2019s research focuses on how to apply mathematical models to psychology. She is interested in Bernoullian psychophysics, (visual) perception, theoretical and applicational psychometric. ETIS<\/a> \/ GoogleScholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Maarika Traat, PhD<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Researcher in Experimental Psychology<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmaarika.traat@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Annegrete Palu<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Doctoral student at UT (psychology), Junior Lecturer of Experimental Psychology, Junior Research Fellow in Psychology and Law<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tannegrete.palu@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Annegrete\u2019s PhD thesis focuses on eyewitness identification. ETIS<\/a> \/ GoogleScholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Liina Juuse<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Doctoral student at UT (psychology) and a data analysis specialist<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tliina.juuse@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Liina\u2019s doctoral research focuses on the bioelectrical correlates of emotion perception and expression and the comparison of emotional expression between human assessment and machine learning solutions. Important problems in the field include the psychological validity of databases used for machine learning, the transferability of posed emotional expression into real life, the presence of mixed emotion and the relation to one\u2019s own perceived emotional experience. The research is carried out in collaboration with the Intelligent Computer Vision Research Laboratory (iCV) of the University of Tartu, led by Professor Gholamreza Anbarjafari. ETIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Liis Kask<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Doctoral student at UT (psychology), Junior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tliis.kask@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Liis\u2019s research involves language and auditory information proccessing and brainmechanisms in language acquisition. Liis focuses on the specifics of Estonian. ETIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Liis Themas<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Doctoral student of Estonian and General Linguistics at UT, Junior Research Fellow in Speech Perception<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tliis.themas@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Liis is a speech and language therapist and in practical work, she specialized to early intervention, couching parents and schooling teatcher. Liis\u2019s PhD research focuses on children\u2019s pre-attentive speech perception: how typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder perceive Estonian three-way quantities. ETIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Mai-Liis Liiser<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Doctoral student at UT (psychology), Junior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmai-liis.liiser@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Mai-Liis\u2019s PhD research focuses on pre-attentive information processing and impulsivity. This work continues her master\u2019s levels research, where she studied the relationships between preattentive information processing and behavioural tasks.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Zigmunds Freibergs<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Doctoral student at UT (psychology), Junior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tzigmunds.freibergs@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Zigmund`s dissertation research focuses on how neural resources are allocated between working memory and attention during cross-modal sensory processing across the lifespan, and how these processes are altered in healthy and impaired aging \u2013 particularly in the contexts of mild cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer`s disease, and genetic predispositions to cognitive decline.
\nHis broader interests include cognitive processes such as memory systems, working memory, attention, and expertise; research methods including EEG (ERPs, time\u2013frequency analysis, EEG-based network analysis, resting-state EEG) and eye-tracking; and broader fields such as network neuroscience, neurobiology, and neuropsychology. ETIS<\/a> \/ GoogleScholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Sofia Lutter<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Doctoral student of Estonian and General Linguistics at UT<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsofia.lutter@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Sofia explores how Russian-Estonian bilinguals percept quantity degrees. She wants to find out whether and how the perception of Estonian quantity differs depending on the age at which a person started to acquire Estonian.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Anna Dadatskaja<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Laboratory Technician of Experimental Psychology<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tanna.dadatskaja@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Anna is studying pre-attentional processing of \u201cpure emotion\u201d in the presence of depression and anxiety. Specifically, she investigates how depression and anxiety mediate the preattentive processing of schematic emotional faces.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Kristiina Averin<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Experimental Psychology Database Specialist<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tkristiina.averin@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Kristiina studies the efficacy of the human visual system in numerosity perception. More specifically, she is interested in the various factors that affect its efficacy in different perceptual tasks. ETIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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