TY - THES A1 - Breakell Fernandez, Leigh T1 - Investigating word order processing using pupillometry and event-related potentials T1 - Untersuchung von Wortfolge-Verarbeitungen unter Verwendung von Pupillometrie und EEG N2 - In this thesis sentence processing was investigated using a psychophysiological measure known as pupillometry as well as Event-Related Potentials (ERP). The scope of the the- sis was broad, investigating the processing of several different movement constructions with native speakers of English and second language learners of English, as well as word order and case marking in German speaking adults and children. Pupillometry and ERP allowed us to test competing linguistic theories and use novel methodologies to investigate the processing of word order. In doing so we also aimed to establish pupillometry as an effective way to investigate the processing of word order thus broadening the methodological spectrum. N2 - Die Doktorarbeit befasste sich mit der Untersuchung von Satzverarbeitung mittels der psychophysiologischen Methode Pupillometrie sowie EEG .Sie umfasst die Untersuchung verschiedener syntaktischer Konstruktionen und Kasusmarkierungen, deren Verarbeitung bei Muttersprachlern und Zweitsprachenlernern des Englischen sowie deutschsprachigen Erwachsenen und Kindern getestet wurden. Pupillometrie und EEG machten es möglich, konkurrierende linguistische Theorien zu testen und neuartige Methodiken zur Untersuchung der Verarbeitung von Wortfolgen zu nutzen. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt bestand darin, Pupillometrie als effektive Art der Untersuchung von Wortfolge-Verarbeitungen zu etablieren und damit das methodologische Spektrum zu erweitern. KW - pupillometry KW - ERP KW - movement structures KW - L2 KW - word order processing KW - child language processing KW - auditory sentence processing KW - Verarbeitung von Zweitsprachen KW - EEG KW - Verarbeitung von Wortfolgen KW - Pupillometrie KW - Eye-Tracking Satzverarbeitung KW - Sprachverarbeitung bei Kindern Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-91438 ER - TY - THES A1 - Tamasi, Katalin T1 - Measuring children’s sensitivity to phonological detail using eye tracking and pupillometry T1 - Untersuchung der Sensitivität von Kleinkindern für phonologische Details mit Hilfe von Eye-Tracking und Pupillometrie N2 - Infants' lexical processing is modulated by featural manipulations made to words, suggesting that early lexical representations are sufficiently specified to establish a match with the corresponding label. However, the precise degree of detail in early words requires further investigation due to equivocal findings. We studied this question by assessing children’s sensitivity to the degree of featural manipulation (Chapters 2 and 3), and sensitivity to the featural makeup of homorganic and heterorganic consonant clusters (Chapter 4). Gradient sensitivity on the one hand and sensitivity to homorganicity on the other hand would suggest that lexical processing makes use of sub-phonemic information, which in turn would indicate that early words contain sub-phonemic detail. The studies presented in this thesis assess children’s sensitivity to sub-phonemic detail using minimally demanding online paradigms suitable for infants: single-picture pupillometry and intermodal preferential looking. Such paradigms have the potential to uncover lexical knowledge that may be masked otherwise due to cognitive limitations. The study reported in Chapter 2 obtained a differential response in pupil dilation to the degree of featural manipulation, a result consistent with gradient sensitivity. The study reported in Chapter 3 obtained a differential response in proportion of looking time and pupil dilation to the degree of featural manipulation, a result again consistent with gradient sensitivity. The study reported in Chapter 4 obtained a differential response to the manipulation of homorganic and heterorganic consonant clusters, a result consistent with sensitivity to homorganicity. These results suggest that infants' lexical representations are not only specific, but also detailed to the extent that they contain sub-phonemic information. N2 - Die lexikalische Verarbeitung bei Kleinkindern kann durch die Manipulation von phonologischen Merkmalen moduliert werden. Dies deutet darauf hin, dass frühe lexikalische Repräsentationen hinreichend spezifiziert sind, um einen Abgleich mit einem gehörten Wort herzustellen. Aufgrund von nicht einheitlichen Befunden ist jedoch weitere Forschung notwendig, um zu bestimmen, wie detailliert erste Wörter repräsentiert werden. Dieser Frage wurde nachgegangen, indem die Sensitivität der Kinder gegenüber dem Grad der Merkmalmanipulation (Kapitel 2 und 3) und gegenüber homorganischen und heterorganischen Konsonantenclustern (Kapitel 4) untersucht wurde. Eine gradiente Sensitivität gegenüber der Manipulation phonologischer Merkmale und eine Sensitivität gegenüber der Homorganizität deuten darauf hin, dass Gradientenempfindlichkeit auf der einen Seite und die Empfindlichkeit gegenüber der für die lexikalische Verarbeitung subphonemische Informationen relevant sind, was wiederum darauf schließen lässt, dass lexikalische Repräsentationen subphonemische Details enthalten. Die Studien, die in dieser Arbeit vorgestellt werden, untersuchen die Sensitivität von 30 Monate alten Kindern für subphonemische Details mit Online-Paradigmen, die für Kleinkinder geeignet sind: Einzelbild-Pupillometrie und "intermodal preferential looking". Diese Paradigmen haben das Potenzial, lexikalisches Wissen aufzudecken, das sonst aufgrund kognitiver Beanspruchungen verdeckt bleibt. Die in Kapitel 2 berichtete Studie zeigt eine differenzielle Reaktion in der Pupillendilatation in Verbindung mit dem Grad der Merkmalsmanipulation, ein Ergebnis, das die Sensitivität gegenüber der Gradienz der phonologischen Distanz nahelegt. Die Studie in Kapitel 3 zeigt eine differenzielle Reaktion sowohl in der Pupillendilatation auch in den Blickzeiten in Abhängigkeit vom Grad der phonologischen Merkmalmanipulation, ein Ergebnis das das der Studie 2 unterstützt. Die in Kapitel 4 berichtete Studie zeigt Unterschiede in der Pupillendilation nur in Reaktion auf eine phonologische Manipulation der homorganischen nicht aber der heterorganischen Konsonantencluster. Dieses Ergebnis stützt die Annahme, einer frühen Sensitivität gegenüber Homorganizität. Diese Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die lexikalischen Repräsentationen von Kleinkindern nicht nur spezifisch, sondern auch detailliert sind, da sie subphonemische Informationen enthalten. KW - phonological development KW - consonant clusters KW - mispronunciation detection KW - pupillometry KW - eye tracking KW - phonologische Entwicklung KW - Konsonantencluster KW - mispronunciation detection KW - Pupillometrie KW - Eye-Tracking Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395954 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fernandez, Leigh A1 - Höhle, Barbara A1 - Brock, Jon A1 - Nickels, Lyndsey T1 - Investigating auditory processing of syntactic gaps with L2 speakers using pupillometry JF - Second language research N2 - According to the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH), second language (L2) speakers, unlike native speakers, build shallow syntactic representations during sentence processing. In order to test the SSH, this study investigated the processing of a syntactic movement in both native speakers of English and proficient late L2 speakers of English using pupillometry to measure processing cost. Of particular interest were constructions where movement resulted in an intermediate gap between clauses. Pupil diameter was recorded during auditory presentation of complex syntactic constructions. Two factors were manipulated: syntactic movement (such that some conditions contained movement while others did not), as well as syntactic movement type (either causing an intermediate gap or not). Grammaticality judgments revealed no differences between the two groups, suggesting both were capable of comprehending these constructions. Pupil change slope measurements revealed a potential sensitivity to intermediate gaps for only native speakers, however, both native and late L2 speakers showed similar facilitation during processing of the second gap site. Acoustic analysis revealed potential acoustic cues that may have facilitated the processing of these constructions. This suggests that, contrary to the predictions of the SSH, late L2 speakers are capable of constructing rich syntactic representations during the processing of intermediate gap constructions in spoken language. KW - filler gap dependency KW - intermediate gap KW - L2 sentence processing KW - pupillometry KW - shallow structure hypothesis Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658317722386 SN - 0267-6583 SN - 1477-0326 VL - 34 IS - 2 SP - 201 EP - 227 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tamasi, Katalin A1 - Mckean, Cristina A1 - Gafos, Adamantios I. A1 - Höhle, Barbara T1 - Children's gradient sensitivity to phonological mismatch BT - Considering the dynamics of looking behavior and pupil dilation JF - Journal of child language N2 - In a preferential looking paradigm, we studied how children's looking behavior and pupillary response were modulated by the degree of phonological mismatch between the correct label of a target referent and its manipulated form. We manipulated degree of mismatch by introducing one or more featural changes to the target label. Both looking behavior and pupillary response were sensitive to degree of mismatch, corroborating previous studies that found differential responses in one or the other measure. Using time-course analyses, we present for the first time results demonstrating full separability among conditions (detecting difference not only between one vs. more, but also between two and three featural changes). Furthermore, the correct labels and small featural changes were associated with stable target preference, while large featural changes were associated with oscillating looking behavior, suggesting significant shifts in looking preference over time. These findings further support and extend the notion that early words are represented in great detail, containing subphonemic information. KW - lexical development KW - featural distance KW - mispronunciation detection KW - eye-tracking KW - pupillometry Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000259 SN - 0305-0009 SN - 1469-7602 VL - 46 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 23 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - D'Agostini, Martina A1 - Burger, Andreas M. A1 - Franssen, Mathijs A1 - Claes, Nathalie A1 - Weymar, Mathias A1 - Leupoldt, Andreas von A1 - Van Diest, Ilse T1 - Effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on reversal learning, tonic pupil size, salivary alpha-amylase, and cortisol JF - Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research N2 - This study investigated whether transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) enhances reversal learning and augments noradrenergic biomarkers (i.e., pupil size, cortisol, and salivary alpha-amylase [sAA]). We also explored the effect of taVNS on respiratory rate and cardiac vagal activity (CVA). Seventy-one participants received stimulation of either the cymba concha (taVNS) or the earlobe (sham) of the left ear. After learning a series of cue-outcome associations, the stimulation was applied before and throughout a reversal phase in which cue-outcome associations were changed for some (reversal), but not for other (distractor) cues. Tonic pupil size, salivary cortisol, sAA, respiratory rate, and CVA were assessed at different time points. Contrary to our hypothesis, taVNS was not associated with an overall improvement in performance on the reversal task. Compared to sham, the taVNS group performed worse for distractor than reversal cues. taVNS did not increase tonic pupil size and sAA. Only post hoc analyses indicated that the cortisol decline was steeper in the sham compared to the taVNS group. Exploratory analyses showed that taVNS decreased respiratory rate but did not affect CVA. The weak and unexpected effects found in this study might relate to the lack of parameters optimization for taVNS and invite to further investigate the effect of taVNS on cortisol and respiratory rate. KW - cortisol KW - noradrenaline KW - pupillometry KW - reversal learning KW - salivary KW - alpha-amylase KW - transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13885 SN - 1469-8986 SN - 1540-5958 VL - 58 IS - 10 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Malden, Mass. [u.a.] ER -