Research in the group

Research topics

1. •Language comprehension in non-linguistic visual contexts
   

2. •Models and processing accounts of situated language comprehension: The Coordinated Interplay Account
   

3. •Parallelism in language comprehension
   

4. •Sentence-picture verification
   

5. •Speaker gaze effects on language comprehension
   

6. •Space and language comprehension
   

7. •Affective cues in language comprehension
   

8. •Event ordering cues in language comprehension

Organization,  & Teaching

Organization

1. •ESLP 2011, ESLP & CSDL 2010, ESLP 2009, & ESP 2007 - for details on the Embodied and Situated Language Processing Workshops see here
   

Teaching

Please click on the above link to get to the course webpages.

BA & MA topics - please contact Dr. P. Knoeferle

Example topics:

1. •Effects of actions, speaker gaze, mimics, and gestures on language comprehension
   

2. •Spatial language processing
   

3. •Language comprehension with virtual agents as speakers
   

4. •Perceptual structures and abstract language processing

PI: Pia Knoeferle, PhD, Assistant Professor

Postdocs

1. •Michele Burigo, PhD (CITEC Graduate school)
   

2. •Maria Nella Carminati, PhD (SFB 673)
   

3. •Helene Kreysa PhD (CITEC)
   

Graduate students

1. •Raymond Becker, MSc
   

2. •Ernesto Guerra, MSc
   

3. •Lu Zhang, MSc
   

Visiting students

1. •Lily Kornbluth (Fulbright)
   

Master’s students

1. •Dato Abashidze, Bridgette DeCot, Eva Nunnemann
   

Student helpers

1. •Katja Glados, Linda Krull, Eva Mende
   

Former students

1. •Jens Apel
   

2. •Emilia Ellsiepen

Publications and News

Recent Publications

1. •Journal articles and special issue
   

2. •Peer-reviewed 6-page conference papers
   

3. •Recent peer-reviewed conference abstracts
   

4. •Book chapters
   

5. •Pdf copies of / links to publications
   

In the News

1. •Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (a national newspaper in Germany). If you know German, here’s a pdf copy of the article. Read about the talks at ESLP 2011.
   

2. •Times of India, 20.12.2010
   

3. •TV broadcast in the BR-alpha series "Was wir noch nicht wissen" (‘What we don’t know yet’). June 19, 2011, 20h. Watch it here.

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Dr. P. Knoeferle

Cognitive Interaction Technology

Center of Excellence,

Building H, Room 133

Morgenbreede 39

Bielefeld University

33615 Bielefeld

Germany

Tel: 0049521-106-12250

Group members

Methods

1. •Eye tracking
   

2. •Event-related brain potentials (with UC San Diego, Kutas Lab)