Liv Merve Akca Abrahamsson

Liv Merve Akca Abrahamsson is a Research Fellow at the Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oslo. Her work focuses on auditory cognition, social-emotional processing, and multisensory integration, particularly in the context of autism spectrum conditions and clinical psychology.

• Education: PhD in Auditory Cognition (2022, University of Oslo), MSc in Psychology (2016, Lund University), BSc in Psychology (2014, Izmir University of Economics)

Her research explores:

• Attentional mechanisms in auditory processing
• Perception of vocal and musical stimuli
• Emotional and social cognition in clinical populations

Publications demonstrate expertise in:

• Attentional blink phenomena
• Cognitive neuroscience methods
• Music psychology
• Autism research

She is affiliated with the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab (CANlab) and has contributed to projects examining mental effort, rhythm perception, and social decision-making.