AG-NGSU : Arbeitsgruppe Neurokognitive Grundlagen sprachlicher Universalien (Research Group Neurocognition of Language Universals)

Current research projects

  • Neurotypology (Matthias Schlesewsky; in collaboration with Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky)
  • Neurolinguistic foundations of information structure (Petra Schumacher; Emmy Noether Research Group; funded by the German Research Foundation)
  • Incremental language processing: a concurrent EEG-eye movement perspective (Matthias Schlesewsky; funded by the German Research Foundation)
  • Language and ageing (Matthias Schlesewsky & Petra Schumacher; in collaboration with Tanja Grewe; funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Neurosciences, University of Mainz)
  • Neurophysiological foundations of sign language (Matthias Schlesewsky; in collaboration with Markus Steinbach; funded by the University of Mainz)
  • Decomposition of ERP-components via ICA and frequency-band analyses (Matthias Schlesewsky; in collaboration with Stefan Berti & Dietmar Roehm; funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Neurosciences, University of Mainz)
  • Experimental pragmatics (Petra Schumacher & Matthias Schlesewsky; in collaboration with Jörg Meibauer & Walter Bisang, funded by the University of Mainz)

People

  • Flora Bastian (student assistant; research topic: EEG-research on cross-linguistic variation)
  • Christopher Bergmann (student assistant; research topic: word order phenomena)
  • Manuel Dangl (student assistant; research topic: pronoun reference resolution)
  • Jane Han (student assistant; research topic: language & music from a cross-linguistic perspective)
  • Annika Herrmann (Postdoc; research topic: neurophysiological foundations of sign language)
  • Hung Yu-Chen (PhD student; research topic: processing information structure in Chinese)
  • Anika Jödicke (lab manager)
  • Franziska Kretzschmar (PhD student; research topic: concurrent EEG-eye movement measures)
  • Maiko Koyanagi (student assistant; research topic: processing information structure in Japanese)
  • Markus Phillip (PhD student; research topics: word order & prominence in Chinese, language & ageing)
  • Torsten Schenk (student assistant; research topics: programming the EEG-eye movement interface; ICA analysis)
  • Matthias Schlesewsky (Prof.; research topics: see above and much more)
  • Petra Schumacher (group leader; Emmy Noether research group; research topics: neurocognition, information structure, experimental pragmatics)
  • Wang Luming (Postdoc; research topic: processing information structure in Japanese)