Ekaterina Shurkova
Teaching Fellow
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: e.shurkova@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room F6, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Availability
Please email me if you would like to set up an online or in-person appointment. I usually respond within the same day to emails received during working hours (9am-5pm).
Background
I am interested in how the mind represents the world, especially in terms of relations between entities. I am also interested in how mental representations change during analogical reasoning and creative problem solving.
Qualifications
PhD in Cognitive Psychology, University of Edinburgh. A symbolic-connectionist model of relation learning and visual reasoning.
MS in Psychology, Old Dominion University. Examining validity of Aha! ratings as a construct of insight.
MS in Computer Science, Old Dominion University. Emergent behavior in massively-deployed sensor networks.
BS and MS in Applied Mathematics, Saratov State University. Modeling of 3D worlds on the Internet.
Undergraduate teaching
- Curriculum Development and Lecturing on Psychological Research Methods course
- Curriculum Development and Lecturing on Current Psychology course (Problem Solving and Decision Making)
- Lecturing on Data Analysis for Psychology in R course
- Core Psychology courses tutorials
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Infancy course tutorials
Postgraduate teaching
- MSc Research Skills course tutorials
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Areas of interest for supervision
Supervising MSc dissertation projects as well as 4th year Honours dissertations and 3rd year mini-dissertation projects on the topics of embodied cognition and creative problem solving (insight in particular).