The Psycholinguistics Group combines experimental psycholinguistic research with computational modelling of the mechanisms which underlie human lexical, syntactic and semantic processing. Core areas of research include:
- Probabilistic and information theoretic models of human sentence processing
- Eye-tracking studies of written language comprehension
- Visual-world studies of situated spoken language understanding and dialogue
- Connectionist models of situated language processing
- Embodied models of spoken comprehension and attention
Our courses are offered to students as part of the BSc programme in Computational Linguistics, and MSc. in Language Science and Technology, which includes the possibility to specialize in Computational Psycholinguistics.
People

Prof. Dr. Matthew W. Crocker
Professor of Psycholinguistics
Department of Language Science & Technology, Saarland University
Deputy Director SFB/CRC 1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding”
Contact
Building C7.1, Room 1.09
Phone: + 49 (681) 302 6555
Fax: +49 (681) 302 6561
crocker(at)lst.uni-saarland.de
PostDocs

Dr. Heiner Drenhaus
Contact
Geb. C7 1, Raum 1.06
Tel.: +49 (681) 302-6597
Fax: +49 (681) 302-6561
drenhaus(at)lst.uni-saarland.de

Dr. Torsten Kai Jachmann
Contact
Geb. C7 1, Raum 1.13
Phone: +49 (681) 302-6558
Fax: +49 (681) 302-6561
jachmann(at)lst.uni-saarland.de

Dr. Francesca Delogu
Contact
Geb. C7 1, Raum 1.18
Tel.: +49 (681) 302-6562
Fax: +49 (681) 302-6561
delogu(at)lst.uni-saarland.de

Dr. Masato Nakamura
Contact
Geb. C7 1, Raum 1.20
Phone: +49 (681) 302-6556
Fax: +49 (681) 302-6561
nakamura(at)lst.uni-saarland.de
PhD Students

Benedict Krieger
Contact
Geb. C7 1, Raum 1.16
Phone: +49 (681) 302-6559
Fax: +49 (681) 302-6561
bkrieger(at)lst.uni-saarland.de

Miriam Schulz
Contact
Geb. C7 1, Raum 1.19
Phone: +49 (681) 302-6563
Fax: +49 (681) 302-6561
mschulz(at)lst.uni-saarland.de

Xinyue Jia
Contact
Geb. C7 1, Raum 1.16
Phone: +49 (681) 302-6559
Fax: +49 (681) 302-6561
xinyue.jia(at)uni-saarland.de
Student Assistants

Hyungu Kang

John Zandray Sena Küffner

Matijas Tunjic
Contact
Psycholinguistics
Department of Language Science and Technology
Saarland University
Campus, Building C7.1
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
Secretary

Claudia Verburg
Contact
Building C7.1, Room 1.09
Phone: +49 (681) 302 6560
Fax: +49 (681) 302 6561
sek-mc(at)lst.uni-saarland.de