Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik

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

object-based information and past, present, and future events
emotional, spatial, and social context
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

Projects

C03 Real-time register comprehension in adolescent heritage speakers’ languages

Contact

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin

(030)2093-9672

admin-psycholinguistik@hu-berlin.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4350-6445