Carlotta Isabella Zona

Carlotta Isabella Zona

Biography

Since July 2020, my doctoral project is funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

Since 2019 I am working as lab-manager of the Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, where I am currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of PD Dr. Claudia Felser;

  • 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).

Carlotta Isabella Zona

 


Doctoral project

My doctoral project focuses on investigating how visual cues are used to guide sentence processing and comprehension in different populations of speakers (e.g., older adults, non-native speakers).

Conference Presentations

Zona, C. I., & Reifegerste, J. Weighting visual and linguistic cues for sentence comprehension: a lifespan study. Talk at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Lille, France,  29 August-01 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. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28314.93123

Publications

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