Carlotta Isabella Zona

MA, MSc

Carlotta Isabella Zona

Doctoral project

My doctoral project investigates how visual cues are used to guide sentence processing and comprehension in different populations of speakers (e.g., older adults, non-native speakers), and is supervised by PD Dr. Claudia Felser. Since July 2020, my research is funded by a PhD scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

Research Interests

  • Sentence processing
  • Multi-modal cue integration
  • Multilingualism
  • Embodied cognition

Carlotta Isabella Zona

MA, MSc

 


Publications

Zona, C. I. (submitted). On-line effects of visual and syntactic constraints for thematic-role prediction: Evidence from mouse tracking. Cognitive Science.

Zona, C. I. & Reifegerste, J. (under review). The weighting of syntactic versus visual-context information during comprehension: A lifespan perspective. Psychology and Aging.

Zona, C. I. & Felser, C. (under review). Integrating morphosyntactic and visual cues for L1 and L2 comprehension.Languages.

Zona, C. I., Raab, M., Fischer, M. H. (2019). Embodied perspectives on behavioral cognitive enhancement.Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 1-17. doi: 10.1007%2Fs41465-018-0102-3

Presentations

Zona, C. I., Mouse tracking for on-line processing: A focus on data analysis. Oral presentation at Friday Primes, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 25 November 2022.

Zona, C. I. Weighting visual cues for sentence comprehension: a mouse-tracking study. Poster presentation at the 28th Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference, York, UK, 7-9 September 2022.

Zona, C. I., & Reifegerste, J. Weighting visual and linguistic cues for sentence comprehension: a lifespan study. Oral presentation at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Lille, France,  29 August-1 September 2022.

Zona, C. I., & Reifegerste, J. The weighting of visual-cue information during sentence comprehension across the lifespan. Poster presentation at the 2022 Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta GA, USA, 7-10 April 2022.

Teaching

30-31.03.2023: Mouse-tracking methods (Workshop contribution) - UiT Arctic University of Norway

SS2021: Multilingualism and Selective Language Impairment (Master's course) - University of Potsdam

Education

  • 2017/2018: Erasmus exchange at the University of Potsdam, Dept. of Cognitive Science and Embodied Cognition;
  • 2016 - 2018: MSc in Cognitive Science, Umeå Universitet, Sweden;
  • 2015/2016: Erasmus exchange, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Dept. of Linguistics;
  • 2014-2018: MA in Germanistics, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden;
  • 2009 - 2012: BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Italy (110/110).