News

Welcoming New Research Assistants

March 4, 2024

We are pleased to welcome two new research assistants to our lab!  Hannah Grobauer and Tiziana Srdoc are starting to work in the Language Comprehension Lab this March.

Eva Wittenberg's Talk at the University of California Audio Podcasts

January 6, 2024

Eva Wittenberg's talk on human language was published by the University of California Audio Podcasts as part of the "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" series.

Natalia Jardon presenting at SIALNI3

October 6, 2023

Our post-doc researcher Natalia Jardon gave a talk at the 3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Aspects of Northwestern Iberia (SIALNI3) [III Simposio Internacional Aspectos Lingüísticos del Noroeste Ibérico] at the University of Salamanca (Spain).

SIALNI is an international symposium on Linguistic Aspects of the Iberian Northwest, with a focus on varieties of Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, and Asturian-Leonese. It brings together insights from traditional dialectology in combination with new approaches, both theoretical and experimental.

Incoming PhD students

July 11, 2023

We are pleased to announce that this Fall two students are starting their Ph.D. studies in the Language Comprehension Lab. 

Oliwia Iwan has already worked in our lab as a visiting student from the University of Vienna. Her research topic is temporal structures in Polish past-under-past relative clauses. Xueyi Yao (Icey) is generally interested in research on the interface of language comprehension and memory.

Congratulations to both of them on their admission and we wish them all the best for their PhD studies!

Language Comprehension Lab at AMLaP conference

June 14, 2023
The Language Comprehension Lab will be present at the AMLaP 29 conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, which will take place in Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain, from August 31 to September 2, 2023. PI Eva Wittenberg, PhD student Elena Marx and Alper Demircan alongside visiting student Oliwia Iwan will be presenting the following works at the conference.
  • Alper Demircan, Natalie Sebanz & Eva Wittenberg: Different languages do not prevent joint memory