Psycholinguistics

The course focuses on central areas within psycholinguistics: comprehension, production, and interaction in spoken and written language; the mental representation of individual words or concepts as well as longer expressions and sentences. It also covers selected aspects of these areas from neurolinguistic and multimodal perspectives.

Psycholinguistics provides theoretical and practical knowledge in conducting, analyzing, and presenting experimental studies. Discussions on the ethical aspects of research are also included.

The course also covers basic quantitative and experimental methods and quantitative data analysis. In addition, it addresses relevant areas within cognitive psychology—such as memory systems and memory processes, perception, and attention—with a fundamental introduction to the functional anatomy of the brain.