Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
My research focuses on (real-time context effects in) language comprehension across the lifespan (in children, young, and older adults) and how we can accommodate these interactions in processing accounts and (computational) models. I examine visual context effects as well as linguistic context effects (e.g., using eye tracking or event-related brain potentials). How rapidly can comprehenders exploit different contextual cues and how do different world-language relations compare in their effects? Are context effects short-lived or protracted? (e.g., as revealed in post-experiment comprehension and recall scores, reflecting learning). What representations and processes much we assume to model how is language processing and learning informed by
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object-based information and past, present, and future events
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emotional, spatial, and social context
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visual perception (of objects, events, speakers, and of the extralinguistic social context including visual gender cues, eye gaze, and facial expressions)
The processing of different world-language relations have been accommodated in high-level accounts of the interaction between sentence-processing and visual perception
Laboratories: Reaction time, eye-tracking, and EEG
Projekte
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Situation-register congruence meets morphosyntax and verb-argument violations: Real-time and post-sentence comprehension
Kontakt
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin
(030)2093-9673
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4350-6445
Publications & Presentations
Reul, Guendalina; Maquate, Katja; Knoeferle, Pia (2022) The (in)dependencies of situational register and grammatical relations: An eye tracking study about the differences and similarities between the processing of situational register and verb-argument congruence in 32-45-year-old adults[ViVo] Patarroyo, Angela Giovanna; Maquate, Katja; Ito, Aine; Knoeferle, Pia (2022) Effects of situation formality on spoken language comprehension of register In: HSP 2022, UC Santa Cruz [ViVo] Plesca, Ana-Maria; Maquate, Katja; Knoeferle, Pia (2022) The interplay of situation-formality register congruence and verb-argument relations In: HSP 2022, UC Santa Cruz [ViVo] Ronderos, Camilo R.; Ito, Aine; Maquate, Katja; Knoeferle, Pia (2021) The interaction between subject-verb agreement and register-situation formality congruence in German sentence processing: an eye-tracking-reading pilot study In: 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing [ViVo] Knoeferle, Pia; Mooshammer, Christine; Lütke, Beate (2022) Area C on modeling In: CRC 1412 – Spring Retreat 2022 [ViVo]