Natálie earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University and is currently studying in the master’s program Neural and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Tübingen. She first encountered neurolinguistics and neuroscience during a high school internship, in which she investigated the influence of dialect on friendship preferences among Czech children. In SPEAKin lab, she primarily works on projects using EEG and fNIRS. In her BA thesis, she focused on how emotional language and swear words influence the neural processing of speech. She would like to understand how complex behavior and cognition arise from the activity of individual neurons. For this reason, she conducts not only research with human subjects but also with mice, which makes it possible to study brain activity both at the level of individual cells and their networks. She is currently working on an experiment for her master’s thesis, in which she investigates the influence of inhibitory neurons in the brainstem on the modulation of touch, using methods such as electrophysiology and optogenetics. In addition to science, she enjoys reading and collecting old editions of books from second-hand bookstores, going to the cinema, and practicing yoga. She popularizes neural and cognitive science on her Instagram profile mozek.strucne.
Natálie’s CV.