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Nora Turoman

Postdoctoral Researcher and Group Leader

Office 210 | Chemin de Pinchat 22 | 1227 Carouge
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  • Leader of the research group , AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ
  • Postdoctoral researcher at Cognitive Aging Lab at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV), AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

 

Brief Curriculum Vitae (full version here)

Education

2016 - 2020 PhD Neuroscience, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Lausanne, CH
2015 - 2016 MSc Psychological Research, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Oxford, UK
2012 - 2014 BSc (hons) Psychological Studies, Singapore branch of Cardiff Metropolitan AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ, SG

 

Professional Experience

since 2024

Postdoctoral Researcher and Group Leader

Cognitive Aging lab, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV), AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

2020 - 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher and Junior Group Leader

Working Memory Cognition and Development lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

2014 - 2015

Research Assistant

Brain Language and Intersensory Perception (BLIP) lab, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ, SG

Grants and awards

2023: Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA), Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

2022: Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship (2022-2024)

2019: Flux pre-conference workshop stiped, Flux: the Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (funded by the Hope Lab and the Bezos Family Foundation)

2019: Lemanic Neuroscience Travel award, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Lausanne

publications

Registered reports

  1. Turoman, N., Vergauwe, E. (2024). The effect of Multisensory distraction on working memory: A role for task relevance? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50(8), 1220-1248.  . . .

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Turoman, N., Walter, E., & Vergauwe, E. (Under review). Children’s working memory is surprisingly robust to multisensory distraction. Developmental Science.
  2. Turoman, N., Fiave, P.A., Zahnd, C., deBettencourt, M., & Vergauwe, E. (2024). Decoding the content of working memory in school-aged children. Cortex, 171, 136-152.
  3. Turoman, N.*, Heyard, R.*, Schwab, S., Furrer, E., Vergauwe, E., & Held, L. (2023). Constructing and implementing PRECHECK: A checklist to evaluate preprints on COVID-19 and beyond. F1000Research, 12, 588. .
  4. Tivadar, R. I., Arnold, R. C., Turoman, N., Knebel, J. F., & Murray, M. M. (2022). Digital Haptics Improve Speed of Visual Search Performance in a Dual-Task Setting. Scientific Reports, 12, 9728.
  5. Turoman, N., Hautekiet, C., Jeanneret, S., Valentini, B., & Langerock, N. (2022). Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example. Infant and Child Development, e2333, 1-17.
  6. Turoman, N., Tivadar, R. I., Retsa, C., Murray, M. M., and Matusz, P. (2021). Towards understanding how we pay attention in naturalistic visual search settings. NeuroImage, 244, 118556.
  7. Turoman, N., Tivadar, R. I., Retsa, C., Maillard, A. M., Scerif, G., and Matusz, P. (2021). Uncovering the mechanisms of real-world attentional control over the course of primary education. Mind, Brain, and Education, 15(4), 344-353.
  8. Turoman, N., Tivadar, R. I., Retsa, C., Maillard, A. M., Scerif, G., and Matusz, P. (2021). The development of attentional control mechanisms in multisensory environments. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48, 100930.
  9. Matusz, P., Turoman, N., Tivadar, R., Retsa, C., and Murray, M.M. (2019). Brain and cognitive mechanisms of top-down attentional control in a multisensory world: Benefits of electrical neuroimaging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(3), 412-430.
  10. Tivadar, R.I., Rouillard, T., Chappaz, C., Knebel, J.-F., Turoman, N., Anaflous, F., Roche, J., Matusz, P., and Murray, M.M. (2019). Mental Rotation of Digitally-Rendered Haptic Objects. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13, 7.
  11. Tivadar, R.I., Retsa, C., Turoman, N., Matusz, P.-J., and Murray, M.M. (2018). Sounds enhance visual completion processes. Neuroimage, 179, 480-488.
  12. Turoman, N., Velasco, C., Chen, Y.-C., Huang, P.-C., and Spence, C. (2018). Symmetry and its role in the crossmodal correspondence between shape and taste. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(3), 738-751.
  13. Turoman, N., and Styles, S. J. (2017). Glyph guessing for ‘oo’ and ‘ee’: spatial frequency information in sound symbolic matching for ancient and unfamiliar scripts. Royal Society Open Science, 4(9), 170882.
  14. Turoman N, Merkley R, Scerif G and Matusz P (2017) How Do Kids and Grown-Ups Get Distracted in Everyday Situations? Frontiers for Young Minds. 5(8). 1-9.

Manuscripts in preparation

  1. Turoman, N., Langerock, N., Vergauwe, E. (In preparation). Interferring with adults' and children's working memory maintenance: Does the sensory profile of distracting information matter?
  2. Turoman, N., Walter, E., Motz, A., & Klatt, L., (In preparation). Presenting features audiovisually improves working memory for bindings. .

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