Accessing conceptual information in language production and comprehension (A04)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience ; General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2011 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192776181

Project A04 will follow up on the results obtained in the first two funding periods investigating three fundamental questions about the representation of attributes in frames: (1) How category-specific are attributes? (2) How abstract are the representations of attributes (3) What is the role of top-down influence (a priori knowledge) on the activation of attributes? A04 will conduct behavioral, EEG and MEG work to answer these questions.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 991: The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition and Science
• Applicant Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Peter Indefrey