Prof. Dr. Alessandro Tavano
Institute of Psychology
Goethe University Frankfurt
Theodor W. Adorno Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Email: alessandro.tavano@ae.mpg.de
Scientific Focus
My research focuses on the neural mechanisms of perception, prediction, and learning, with particular emphasis on how sensory regularities, prior knowledge, and bodily states shape cognition.
Methods
I combine human neuroimaging and electrophysiology with cross-species (humans, marmosets, rats) approaches to study these processes across timescales, from basic sensory adaptation to language and social interaction.
Selected Publications
Iaia, C., Tavano, A. (2025). Aligning syntactic structure to the dynamics of verbal communication: a pipeline for annotating syntactic phrases onto speech acoustics. Behavior Research Methods (accepted for publication 16 June 2025). https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5625187/v1
Neamaalkassis, H., Boubenec, Y., Fiebach, C. J., Muralikrishnan, R., Tavano, A. (2025). The fundamental frequencies of our own voice. Royal Society Open Science. 12: 241081. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241081
Fink, L., Simola, J., Tavano, A., et al. (2024). From pre-processing to advanced dynamic modeling of pupil data. Behavior Research Methods. 56: 1376–1412. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02098-1
Kazanina, N., Tavano, A. (2023). What neural oscillations can and cannot do for syntactic structure building. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 24: 113–128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-022-00659-5
Sierra, F., Muralikrishnan, R., Poeppel, D., Tavano, A. (2023). A perceptual glitch in serial perception generates temporal distortions. Scientific Reports. 12: 21065. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25573-9.