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Brain indexes of semantic and pragmatic prediction (Dissertationsprojekt)

Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie - Brain Language Lab

Salomé Antoine

Although the role of prediction in language and communication processing is widely acknowledged, there exist few brain indexes that directly map the neurophysiological correlates of prediction as these emerge in real time. Most studies use event-related activity elicited after the predicted (or ...

Communication beyond form: how the brain processes communicative intention (Dissertationsprojekt)

Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie - Brain Language Lab

Isabella Boux

Language interacts with the context in which it occurs, meaning that a same linguistic expression can be used by a speaker to communicate different things. In other words, the communicative action of an utterance and its physical form can be considered independent to a certain degree. The aim of ...

Contributions of neural connectivity to language processing (Dissertationsprojekt)

Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie - Brain Language Lab

Maxime Carrière

While there is growing evidence supporting the distributed representation of words across the cortical regions, the limitations of current imaging techniques restrict their ability to study these representations at a granular cortical level. Therefore, the primary objective of my doctoral research ...

Linguistic Relativity (Dissertationsprojekt)

Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie - Brain Language Lab

Tally McCormick Miller

Can language influence our perception? Does labelling something make it easier for us to perceive it? Linguistic relativity states that language has a causal effect on perception. I investigate the neuronal basis of how labels may influence our perceptual processes. Using tactile and visual ...