The Role of Language Experience and Surprisal for Learning and Memory (A05)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 232722074

A5 uses a life-span perspective to investigate how surprisal during online language processing affects memory. We will investigate different types of memory, including working memory, episodic memory and false memory. Using behavioural and neurophysiological methods in controlled experimental settings, our overarching goal is to deepen and expand the findings from Phase II and elucidate how developmental aspects affect memory encoding and retrieval of surprising information.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding
• Applicant Institution: Universität des Saarlandes
• Project Heads: Dr. Katja Häuser; Professorin Dr. Jutta Kray; Professorin Dr. Nivedita Mani, until 6/2022; Dr. Maria Staudte, until 9/2020