Tanja Atanasova
Tanja Atanasova
PhD Candidate
28 bd du Pont d'Arve
Courriel
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Language development
Adolescence
Word production
EEG/ERP
PUBLICATIONS
Atanasova, T., Laganaro, M. (Submitted). The development of referential and inferential word production through adolescence: behavioral and neurophysiological changes.
Krethlow, G., Atanasova, T., Ménétré, E., Laganaro, M. (Submitted). Asynchronous behavioral and neurophysiological changes in word production in the adult lifespan.
Atanasova, T., Fargier, R., Zesiger, P., Laganaro, M. (2021). Dynamics of single word production from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. Neurobiology of Language, 2(1), 1–21.
Dalboni da Rocha, J. L., Schneider, P., Benner, J., Santoro, R., Atanasova, T., Van de Ville, D., Golestani, N. (2020). TASH: Toolbox for the Automated Segmentation of Heschl’s gyrus. Scientific Reports, 10, 3887.
INVITED TALKS
Atanasova T. (2021, February). Dynamics of single word production in the transition to adulthood. Co-air Webinar, Zürich, Switzerland.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
Lancheros, M., Atanasova, T., Laganaro, M. (2021, November). Speech and non-speech motor encoding from childhood to adulthood. International workshop on language production, online.
Atanasova, T. (2021, October). The development of referential and inferential word production in adolescence. Slide slam at the SNL meeting, online.
Krethlow, G., Atanasova, T., Ménétré, E., Laganaro, M. (2021, October). Asynchronous behavioral and neurophysiological changes in word production in the adult lifespan. Slide slam at the SNL meeting, online.
Atanasova, T. (2021, August). The development of referential and inferential naming through adolescence: behavioral and spatio-temporal dynamics. Talk at the brain and language conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Atanasova, T. (2021, May). The role of visual-conceptual processes in a referential naming task: a developmental behavioral and spatio- temporal study. Talk at the Neuropedagogy of vision and beyond: from perception to cognition symposium, Hôpital Ophtalmique Jules-Gonin, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Atanasova, T., Krethlow, G., Laganaro, M. (2020, March). When do neurophysiological correlates of word production change in the adult lifespan? Virtual talk at the Second Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan, London, UK.
Atanasova, T. (2018, August). Dynamics of single word production from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. Talk at the Geneva Aging Series VII, St. Légier (VD), CH.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
Atanasova, T. (2022, March). Do visuo-conceptual or lexical-semantic processes underpin the changes of word production through adolescence? Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language conference, virtual.
Atanasova, T. (2020, October). Variability in the adolescent brain: the influence of age and sex on behavioral and ERP correlates of referential word production. poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language conference, Virtual conference.
Atanasova, T. (2020, February). Variability in Adolescence: a Behavioral and ERP word production study. Poster presented at the 2nd Swiss Early-career Researchers Symposium, Bern, CH.
Atanasova, T. (2020, January). When do Neurophysiological Correlates of Word Production become Adult-like in the Lifespan? Poster presented at Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting, Champéry, CH.
Atanasova, T. (2019, August). Single-word production from childhood to adolescence. Poster presented at Neurobiology of Language Conference, Helsinki, FI.
Atanasova, T. (2018, July). Dynamics of single word production from childhood to adolescence and adulthood: A behavioral and ERP study. Poster presented at the CuttingEEG, Paris, FR.
Atanasova, T. (2018, July). Word production development through adolescence. Poster presented at the Learning in Humans and Machines Conference, Paris, FR.
Atanasova, T. (2018, June). Dynamics of single word production from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. Poster presented at the Social Communication Across the Lifespan Conference, Canterbury, UK.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, University of Geneva
September 2016 – January 2018
MSc research - “Dynamics of Word Production from Childhood to Adolescence and Adulthood.”
Director: Prof. Marina Laganaro
Supervisor: Dr. Raphaël Fargier
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
September 2015 – June 2016
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE) - University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Bachelor of Arts in Letters and Human Sciences, University of Neuchâtel
September 2012 - June 2015
Speech Therapy
Educational Psychology
Sciences of Language