Nikol Tsenkova

Nikol Tsenkova is a Research Fellow in the Department of Developmental Psychology at Justus Liebig University Giessen, affiliated with the Department of Psychology and Sport Science. She has held this position since May 2022. Her academic background includes a Master's degree in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience from Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2019–2022) and a Bachelor's in Cognitive Psychology from New Bulgarian University, Sofia (2013–2017). Prior roles include Neurofeedback Assistant (Praxis Jones, Stuttgart) and Research Assistant at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Her research investigates:

• Lifespan development of facial emotion categorization
• Eye-tracking methodologies for visual attention mapping
• Social cognition in clinical and typical populations
• fMRI/EEG applications in cognitive neuroscience
• Neuroimaging meta-analysis techniques

Her sole publication (2025) examines language processing irregularities in Developmental Language Disorder, aligning with her focus on neurocognitive development and disorder mechanisms.