Current fundings of the RF Cognitive Sciences
Interdisciplinary PhD-projects
Research on visual and linguistic communication with methods of machine learning
Project description: The aim of the project is to investigate visual and linguistic communication with methods of cognitive psychology and machine learning.
PhD-student: Aynur Pelin Celikkol
Co-supervised by: Dr. Jochen Laubrock and Prof. Dr. David Schlangen
Interpersonal synchrony and language development of infants
Project description: The aim is to investigate whether and how early interpersonal synchrony predicts the later language development of infants.
PhD-student: Monica Vanoncini
Supervised by: Dr. Ezgi Kayhan Wagner, Prof. Dr. Boll-Avetisyan and Prof. Dr. Brigit Elsner
Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) and language processing
Project description: The aim is to investigate the influence of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) on the electrophysiology of language comprehension and learning. For example, the question is whether tVNS can enhance incidental memory formation during language comprehension.
PhD-student:Friederike Contier
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Milena Rabovsky, Prof. Dr. Mathias Weymar and Prof. Dr. Isabell Wartenburger.