A5077765751- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Topic Modeling
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Text Readability and Simplification
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Language and cultural evolution
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Optimal Experimental Design Methods
University of Tübingen
2015-2024
University of St Andrews
2008-2009
People often become slower in their performance after committing an error, which is usually explained by strategic control adjustments towards a more conservative response threshold. The present study tested alternative hypothesis for explaining posterror slowing terms of behavioural interferences resulting from error monitoring manipulating stimulus contrast and categorization difficulty choice reaction time task. response-stimulus interval (RSI) was either short or long, using...
Human thought and language is traditionally considered as abstract, amodal, symbolic. However, recent theories propose that high-level human cognition directly linked to basic, modal biological systems such sensorimotor areas. Despite this influential representational debate very little known regarding whether the mechanisms involved in control are also shared with higher-level cognitive processes, comprehension. We investigated negation a universal of language, addressing two key questions:...
According to the body-specificity hypothesis, people associate positive things with side of space that corresponds their dominant hand and negative corresponding nondominant hand. Our aim was find out whether this association holds also true for a response time study using linguistic stimuli, such an is activated automatically. Four experiments explored words. In Exp. 1, right-handers made lexical judgment by pressing left or right key. Attention not explicitly drawn valence stimuli. No...
In distributional semantics models (DSMs) such as latent semantic analysis (LSA), words are represented vectors in a high-dimensional vector space. This allows for computing word similarities the cosine of angle between two vectors. experiments, we investigated whether LSA predict priming effects, that higher associated with shorter reaction times (RTs). Critically, applied pseudo-random procedure generating item material to ensure directly manipulated cosines an independent variable. We...
Negation comprehension is a time-consuming, resource demanding process. This study investigates whether additional time to process the negation operator eases integration. In Experiment 1 we analysed N400 amplitude in sentences of following types: correct (Zebras are (not) stripy), world-knowledge violation (Ladybirds stripy) and semantically violated (Thoughts stripy). 2, was pre-pended actual sentence using an introductory statement (It true that ladybirds provide processing deal with...
Traditionally, language processing has been attributed to a separate system in the brain, which supposedly works an abstract propositional manner. However, there is increasing evidence suggesting that strongly interrelated with sensorimotor processing. Evidence for such interrelation typically drawn from interactions between and perception or action. In current study, effect of words refer entities world typical location (e.g., sun, worm) on planning saccadic eye movements was investigated....
Affirmative sentences are comprehended more quickly when they true vs. false but this facilitation is often reduced or absent in negative sentences, yielding a so-called negation-by-truth-value interaction. The sensitivity to truth-value has been attributed processing difficulties triggered by negation. We investigated whether such as these were eased comprehenders given time process the negator. Specifically, we compared negated which negator immediately preceded an adjectival predicate...
Decision processes within choice reaction-time (CRT) tasks are often modelled using evidence accumulation models (EAMs), a variation of which is the Diffusion Model (DDM, for review, see Ratcliff et al., 2016). Ulrich al. (2015) introduced Conflict (DMC). The DMC model combines common features from standard diffusion with addition superimposed controlled and automatic activation. can explain data behavioural patterns conflict-like tasks, where stimulus include both relevant irrelevant source...
Abstract The use of taboo words represents one the most common and arguably universal linguistic behaviors, fulfilling a wide range psychological social functions. However, in scientific literature, language is poorly characterized, how it realized different languages populations remains largely unexplored. Here we provide database words, collected from communities (Study 1, N = 1046), along with their speaker-centered semantic characterization 2, 455 for each six rating dimensions),...