People

Dr. Lars Meyer

Group Leader

I am a cognitive neuroscientist trained as a linguist at the universities of Hanover, DE, Groningen, NL, Joensuu, FI, and Potsdam DE. I am interested in the electrophysiology of language. Specifically, I investigate the role of periodic activity—so-called neural oscillations—in sentence comprehension. I employ neuroimaging (e.g., electro– and magnetoencephalography, functional and structural MRI) on a range of populations (e.g., developmental, healthy, aging, and clinical).

Chia-Wen Lo, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

I obtained my Ph.D. degree in the area of neurolinguistics from the University of Michigan. I am interested in human sentence processing by using brain image tools such as electroencephalography (EEG) and investigating neural signals from computational approaches. My dissertation investigates how compositional processes are carried out by low-frequency neural oscillations, which have been recently correlated with the processing of hierarchical structures. My current research examines the time and frequency domain analysis of annotated corpora and aims to see how periodicity is reflected in sentence structure across languages.

Lena Henke

PhD Student

Before coming to Leipzig, I was trained in cognitive science and clinical linguistics and initially joined the Language Cycles team for my Master’s thesis. In my research, I investigate how low-frequent intrinsic activity of the brain temporally constraints perception and thereby influences language comprehension. Specifically, I am interested in the upper limit of this constraint taking into account inter- and intraindividual variability.

Lorenzo Titone

PhD Student

My educational background is in Psychological Sciences (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, BSc.) and in Cognitive Neuroscience (Maastricht University, MSc.) My current research interests are on neural oscillatory dynamics, entrainment, statistical learning, and predictive processing. During my PhD at the Language Cycles research group I am focussing on the effects of temporal predictions in language processing using advanced non-invasive brain imaging techniques such as magnetoencephalography (MEG).

Jule Nabrotzky

PhD Student

I’ve studied linguistics on the Bachelor level at the CAU Kiel (Germany) & Åbo Akademi (Finland) and obtained my Master’s degree in Phonetics at Lund University (Sweden). I am interested in the neural processing of spoken speech in interactive contexts, especially the processing of prosodic contours and the multimodal coordination of speech. As part of my PhD in the Language Cycles group I’m using neuroimaging to investigate entrainment to acoustic and gestural cues. Specifically, I’m exploring how the rhythmicity of these speech cues helps with the predictive timing of turn-taking in conversation.

Filip Miščević

PhD Student

I completed my Bachelor of Science in cognitive science, neuroscience, and computer science, and a Master of Science in Applied Computing, at the University of Toronto. My research interests span computational linguistics, cognitive modelling, and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). For my PhD research, I aim to develop neurofeedback-based BCIs for improving auditory attention and speech perception.

Suong Welp

PhD Student

I have a Psychology BSc from Hamburg university and a Neurocognitive Psychology MSc from Oldenburg university. My research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH). In my PhD, I investigate the role of predictive coding in AVH, utilizing complementary neuroimaging techniques to explore both the spatial and linguistic dimensions of these phenomena.

Caroline Duchow

Lab Manager

I studied linguistics at the universities of Leipzig and Erfurt. While conducting an internship and writing my Master’s thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute, my interest in neurolinguistics grew. As the lab manager of this research group, I hope to gain more insights into the work of scientists and support them wherever I can.