@article{Wartenburger2006, author = {Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Wie ver{\"a}ndert der (Fremd-)Spracherwerb das Gehirn? : Einfluss von Erwerbsalter und Sprachleistungsniveau auf die kortikale Repr{\"a}sentation grammatikalischer und semantischer Verarbeitungsprozesse}, isbn = {3-88246-298-1}, year = {2006}, language = {de} } @article{BoehmeBurmesterKrajewskietal.2010, author = {B{\"o}hme, Romy and Burmester, Juliane and Krajewski, Melanie and Nager, Wido and Jungeh{\"u}lsing, Gerhard Jan and Schr{\"o}der, Astrid and Wartenburger, Isabell and J{\"o}bges, Michael}, title = {Transkranielle Gleichstromstimulation (tDCS)}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-47045}, pages = {167 -- 174}, year = {2010}, language = {de} } @article{ZakariasSalisWartenburger2019, author = {Zakari{\´a}s, Lilla and Salis, Christos and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Transfereffekte nach Arbeitsged{\"a}chtnistraining bei Aphasie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {11}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-448-7}, issn = {1866-9085}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43779}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-437799}, pages = {131 -- 133}, year = {2019}, language = {de} } @article{ZakariasSalisWartenburger2018, author = {Zakarias, Lilla and Salis, Christos and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Transfer effects on spoken sentence comprehension and functional communication after working memory training in stroke aphasia}, series = {Journal of neurolinguistics : an international journal for the study of brain function in language behavior and experience}, volume = {48}, journal = {Journal of neurolinguistics : an international journal for the study of brain function in language behavior and experience}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0911-6044}, doi = {10.1016/j.jneuroling.2017.12.002}, pages = {47 -- 63}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Recent treatment protocols have been successful in improving working memory (WM) in individuals with aphasia. However, the evidence to date is small and the extent to which improvements in trained tasks of WM transfer to untrained memory tasks, spoken sentence comprehension, and functional communication is yet poorly understood. To address these issues, we conducted a multiple baseline study with three German-speaking individuals with chronic post stroke aphasia. Participants practised two computerised WM tasks (n-back with pictures and aback with spoken words) four times a week for a month, targeting two WM processes: updating WM representations and resolving interference. All participants showed improvement on at least one measure of spoken sentence comprehension and everyday memory activities. Two of them showed improvement also on measures of WM and functional communication. Our results suggest that WM can be improved through computerised training in chronic aphasia and this can transfer to spoken sentence comprehension and functional communication in some individuals.}, language = {en} } @article{DixWartenburgervanderMeer2016, author = {Dix, Annika and Wartenburger, Isabell and van der Meer, Elke}, title = {The role of fluid intelligence and learning in analogical reasoning: How to become neurally efficient?}, series = {Neurobiology of learning and memory}, volume = {134}, journal = {Neurobiology of learning and memory}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {San Diego}, issn = {1074-7427}, doi = {10.1016/j.nlm.2016.07.019}, pages = {236 -- 247}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This study on analogical reasoning evaluates the impact of fluid intelligence on adaptive changes in neural efficiency over the course of an experiment and specifies the underlying cognitive processes. Grade 10 students (N = 80) solved unfamiliar geometric analogy tasks of varying difficulty. Neural efficiency was measured by the event-related desynchronization (ERD) in the alpha band, an indicator of cortical activity. Neural efficiency was defined as a low amount of cortical activity accompanying high performance during problem-solving. Students solved the tasks faster and more accurately the higher their FI was. Moreover, while high FI led to greater cortical activity in the first half of the experiment, high FI was associated with a neurally more efficient processing (i.e., better performance but same amount of cortical activity) in the second half of the experiment. Performance in difficult tasks improved over the course of the experiment for all students while neural efficiency increased for students with higher but decreased for students with lower fluid intelligence. Based on analyses of the alpha sub-bands, we argue that high fluid intelligence was associated with a stronger investment of attentional resource in the integration of information and the encoding of relations in this unfamiliar task in the first half of the experiment (lower-2 alpha band). Students with lower fluid intelligence seem to adapt their applied strategies over the course of the experiment (i.e., focusing on task-relevant information; lower-1 alpha band). Thus, the initially lower cortical activity and its increase in students with lower fluid intelligence might reflect the overcoming of mental overload that was present in the first half of the experiment. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.}, language = {en} } @article{WartenburgerSteinbrinkTelkemeyeretal.2007, author = {Wartenburger, Isabell and Steinbrink, Jens and Telkemeyer, Silke and Friedrich, Manuela and Friederici, Angela D. and Obrig, Hellmuth}, title = {The processing of prosody : evidence of interhemispheric specialization at the age of four}, issn = {1053-8119}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{RaelingSchroederWartenburger2016, author = {R{\"a}ling, Romy and Schr{\"o}der, Astrid and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {The origins of age of acquisition and typicality effects: Semantic processing in aphasia and the ageing brain}, series = {Neuropsychologia : an international journal in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience}, volume = {86}, journal = {Neuropsychologia : an international journal in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0028-3932}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.04.019}, pages = {80 -- 92}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Age of acquisition (AOA) has frequently been shown to influence response times and accuracy rates in word processing and constitutes a meaningful variable in aphasic language processing, while its origin in the language processing system is still under debate. To find out where AOA originates and whether and how it is related to another important psycholinguistic variable, namely semantic typicality (TYP), we studied healthy, elderly controls and semantically impaired individuals using semantic priming. For this purpose, we collected reaction times and accuracy rates as well as event-related potential data in an auditory category-member-verification task. The present results confirm a semantic origin of TYP, but question the same for AOA while favouring its origin at the phonology-semantics interface. The data are further interpreted in consideration of recent theories of ageing. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.}, language = {en} } @misc{GotznerWartenburgerSpalek2016, author = {Gotzner, Nicole and Wartenburger, Isabell and Spalek, Katharina}, title = {The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of contrastive alternatives}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {517}, issn = {1866-8364}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-41342}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413420}, pages = {37}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The semantics of focus particles like only requires a set of alternatives (Rooth, 1992). In two experiments, we investigated the impact of such particles on the retrieval of alternatives that are mentioned in the prior context or unmentioned. The first experiment used a probe recognition task and showed that focus particles interfere with the recognition of mentioned alternatives and the rejection of unmentioned alternatives relative to a condition without a particle. A second lexical decision experiment demonstrated priming effects for mentioned and unmentioned alternatives (compared with an unrelated condition) while focus particles caused additional interference effects. Overall, our results indicate that focus particles trigger an active search for alternatives and lead to a competition between mentioned alternatives, unmentioned alternatives, and the focused element.}, language = {en} } @article{GotznerWartenburgerSpalek2016, author = {Gotzner, Nicole and Wartenburger, Isabell and Spalek, Katharina}, title = {The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of contrastive alternatives}, series = {Language and cognition : an interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science}, volume = {8}, journal = {Language and cognition : an interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {1866-9808}, doi = {10.1017/langcog.2015.25}, pages = {59 -- 95}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The semantics of focus particles like only requires a set of alternatives (Rooth, 1992). In two experiments, we investigated the impact of such particles on the retrieval of alternatives that are mentioned in the prior context or unmentioned. The first experiment used a probe recognition task and showed that focus particles interfere with the recognition of mentioned alternatives and the rejection of unmentioned alternatives relative to a condition without a particle. A second lexical decision experiment demonstrated priming effects for mentioned and unmentioned alternatives (compared with an unrelated condition) while focus particles caused additional interference effects. Overall, our results indicate that focus particles trigger an active search for alternatives and lead to a competition between mentioned alternatives, unmentioned alternatives, and the focused element.}, language = {en} } @misc{FrankFrankMohretal.2022, author = {Frank, Ulrike and Frank, Katrin and Mohr, Bettina and Kurtenbach, Stephanie and Khader-Lindholz, Aischa and Sallat, Stephan and Wagner, Lilli and D{\"u}ring, Sarah and Lubitz, Anika and Schnelle, Kirsten and Klitsch, Julia and Netzebandt, Jonka and Fritsche, Tom and Uhlemann, Charlotte and Wartenburger, Isabell and Hilton, Matt and Neitzel, Isabel and Schmidt, Johanna and Eikerling, Maren and Cholin, Joana and Menze, Clara and Stadie, Nicole and Schmitz-Antonischki, Dorit and Heide, Judith and Plath, Almut and Corsten, Sabine and Hoffmann, Marie and Leinweber, Juliane and Spelter, Bianca and Karstens, Sven}, title = {Spektrum Patholinguistik Band 15. Schwerpunktthema: Interdisziplin{\"a}r behandeln - Multiprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit in der Sprachtherapie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {15}, editor = {Tan, Sarah and D{\"u}ring, Sarah and Wilde, Alina and Wunderlich, Hanna and Fritzsche, Tom}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-542-2}, issn = {1866-9433}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-55820}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-558206}, pages = {vii, 180}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Das 15. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema »Interdisziplin{\"a}r (be-)handeln - Multiprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit in der Sprachtherapie« fand am 20.11.2021 als Online-Veranstaltung statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 j{\"a}hrlich vom Verband f{\"u}r Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl), seit 2021 vom Deutschen Bundesverband f{\"u}r akademische Sprachtherapie und Logop{\"a}die (dbs) in Kooperation mit der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam durchgef{\"u}hrt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die Vortr{\"a}ge zum Schwerpunktthema und Informationen aus der Podiumsdiskussion sowie die Posterpr{\"a}sentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis.}, language = {de} } @misc{IvenHansenAndersetal.2020, author = {Iven, Claudia and Hansen, Bernd and Anders, Kristina and Starke, Andreas and Richardt, Kirsten and Pr{\"u}ß, Holger and El Meskioui, Martina and Haase, Tobias and Mahlberg, Lea and Wiehe, Lea and de Beer, Carola and Niepelt Karampamapa, Rebekka and Hofmann, Andrea and Stadie, Nicole and Hanne, Sandra and Thomson, Jenny and Sch{\"a}fer, Blanca and Huttenlauch, Clara and Wartenburger, Isabell and Weiland, Katharina and Wirsam, Anke and Hartung, Julia and Wahl, Michael and Unger, Julia and Buschmann, Anke and Seefeld, Martin and Bethge, Anita and Fieder, Nora and Rahman, Rasha Abdel and Nousair, Iman and Klassert, Annegret and Wellmann, Caroline and Verbree, Rahel and van Rij, Jacolien and Sprenger, Simone and M{\"a}hl, Anna Luisa and Schneider, Kathleen and Kutz, Anne and Kaps, Hella and Frank, Ulrike and Brekeller, Sophie and Ryll, Katja}, title = {Spektrum Patholinguistik Band 12. Schwerpunktthema: Weg(e) mit dem Stottern: Therapie und Selbsthilfe f{\"u}r Kinder und Erwachsene}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {12}, editor = {Breitenstein, Sarah and Burmester, Juliane and Yetim, {\"O}zlem and Fritzsche, Tom}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-479-1}, issn = {1866-9085}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43700}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-437002}, pages = {viii, 257}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Das 12. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema »Weg(e) mit dem Stottern: Therapie und Selbsthilfe f{\"u}r Kinder und Erwachsene« fand am 24.11.2018 in Potsdam statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 j{\"a}hrlich vom Verband f{\"u}r Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) durchgef{\"u}hrt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die Vortr{\"a}ge zum Schwerpunktthema sowie Beitr{\"a}ge der Posterpr{\"a}sentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis.}, language = {de} } @misc{VoigtZimmermannStierLascheitetal.2019, author = {Voigt-Zimmermann, Susanne and Stier, Karl-Heinz and Lascheit, Thomas and Kruse, Stephanie A. and Blickensdorff, Maria and F{\"o}rster, Theresa and Schumacher, Rebecca and Burchert, Frank and Ablinger, Irene and F{\"o}rster, Christine and Wahl, Michael and Schirmacher, Irene and Ostermann, Frank and Welke, Lisa-Marie and Frank, Ulrike and Zakari{\´a}s, Lilla and Salis, Christos and Wartenburger, Isabell and Krug, Ragna and St{\"u}bner, Hanna and Hoffmann, Sophie and Heide, Judith}, title = {Spektrum Patholinguistik Band 11. Schwerpunktthema: Gut gestimmt: Diagnostik und Therapie bei Dysphonie}, number = {11}, editor = {Fritzsche, Tom and Yetim, {\"O}zlem and Otto, Constanze and Adelt, Anne}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-448-7}, issn = {1866-9085}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-41857}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-418574}, pages = {142}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Das 11. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema »Gut gestimmt: Diagnostik und Therapie bei Dysphonie« fand am 18.11.2017 in Potsdam statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 j{\"a}hrlich vom Verband f{\"u}r Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) durchgef{\"u}hrt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die Hauptvortr{\"a}ge zum Schwerpunktthema sowie Beitr{\"a}ge zu den Kurzvortr{\"a}gen »Spektrum Patholinguistik« und der Posterpr{\"a}sentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis.}, language = {de} } @misc{AichertStaigerSchulteMaeteretal.2010, author = {Aichert, Ingrid and Staiger, Anja and Schulte-M{\"a}ter, Anne and Becker-Redding, Ulrike and Stahn, Corinna and Peschke, Claudia and Heide, Judith and Ott, Susan and Herrmann, Heike and V{\"o}lsch, Juliane and Mayer, J{\"o}rg and Rohnke, Lucie and Frank, Ulrike and Stadie, Nicole and Jentsch, Nadine and Blech, Anke and Kurtenbach, Stephanie and Thieke, Johanna and Schr{\"o}der, Astrid and Stahn, Corinna and H{\"o}rnig, Robin and Burchert, Frank and De Bleser, Ria and Heister, Julian and Bartels, Luise and W{\"u}rzner, Kay-Michael and B{\"o}hme, Romy and Burmester, Juliane and Krajewski, Melanie and Nager, Wido and Jungeh{\"u}lsing, Gerhard Jan and Wartenburger, Isabell and J{\"o}bges, Michael and Schwilling, Eleonore and Lidzba, Karen and Winkler, Susanne and Konietzko, Andreas and Kr{\"a}geloh-Mann, Ingeborg and Rilling, Eva and Wilken, Rainer and Wismann, Kathrin and Glandorf, Birte and Hoffmann, Hannah and Hinnenkamp, Christiane and Rohlmann, Insa and Ludewigt, Jacqueline and Bittner, Christian and Orlov, Tatjana and Claus, Katrin and Ehemann, Christine and Winnecken, Andreas and Hummel, Katja and Breitenstein, Sarah}, title = {Spektrum Patholinguistik = Schwerpunktthema: Von der Programmierung zur Artikulation : Sprechapraxie bei Kindern und Erwachsenen}, number = {3}, editor = {Wahl, Michael and Stahn, Corinna and Hanne, Sandra and Fritzsche, Tom}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, organization = {Verband f{\"u}r Patholinguistik e. V. (vpl)}, isbn = {978-3-86956-079-3}, issn = {1869-3822}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-4578}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-45470}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Das 3. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik fand am 21. November 2009 an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam statt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband enth{\"a}lt die drei Hauptvortr{\"a}ge zum Schwerpunktthema „Von der Programmierung zu Artikulation: Sprechapraxie bei Kindern und Erwachsenen". Dar{\"u}ber hinaus enth{\"a}lt der Band die Beitr{\"a}ge aus dem Spektrum Patholinguistik, sowie die Abstracts der Posterpr{\"a}sentationen.}, language = {de} } @misc{AktasSuccowGieletal.2015, author = {Aktas, Maren and Succow, Juliane and Giel, Barbara and Dressel, Katharina and Lange, Inga and Hanne, Sandra and Burchert, Frank and Vasishth, Shravan and Schwytay, Jeannine and Breitenstein, Sarah and Fleischhauer, Elisabeth and Baumann, Jeannine and Preisinger, Irmhild and Siegm{\"u}ller, Julia and Kuschmann, Anja and Ebert, Susanne and Lowit, Anja and Rath, Elisa and Heide, Judith and Lorenz, Antje and Wartenburger, Isabell and Hippeli, Carolin and Rausch, Monika and W{\"u}rzner, Kay-Michael and Schroeder, Sascha and Czapka, Sophia and Klassert, Annegret and Reuters, Sabine and Frank, Ulrike and Frank, Katrin and Zimmermann, Heinrich and Peiffers, Sabine and Thonicke, Mady}, title = {Spektrum Patholinguistik = Schwerpunktthema: Besonders behandeln? : Sprachtherapie im Rahmen prim{\"a}rer St{\"o}rungsbilder}, number = {8}, editor = {Adelt, Anne and Otto, Constanze and Fritzsche, Tom and Magister, Caroline}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, organization = {Verband f{\"u}r Patholinguistik e. V. (vpl)}, isbn = {978-3-86956-335-0}, issn = {1869-3822}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-7714}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-77147}, pages = {vii, 247}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Das 8. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema "Besonders behandeln? Sprachtherapie im Rahmen prim{\"a}rer St{\"o}rungsbilder" fand am 15.11.2014 in Potsdam statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 j{\"a}hrlich vom Verband f{\"u}r Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) durchgef{\"u}hrt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die vier Hauptvortr{\"a}ge zum Schwerpunktthema, die vier Kurzvortr{\"a}ge aus dem Spektrum Patholinguisitk sowie die Beitr{\"a}ge der Posterpr{\"a}sentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis.}, language = {de} } @article{RossiTelkemeyerWartenburgeretal.2012, author = {Rossi, Sonja and Telkemeyer, Silke and Wartenburger, Isabell and Obrig, Hellmuth}, title = {Shedding light on words and sentences near-infrared spectroscopy in language research}, series = {Brain \& language : a journal of the neurobiology of language}, volume = {121}, journal = {Brain \& language : a journal of the neurobiology of language}, number = {2}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {San Diego}, issn = {0093-934X}, doi = {10.1016/j.bandl.2011.03.008}, pages = {152 -- 163}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Investigating the neuronal network underlying language processing may contribute to a better understanding of how the brain masters this complex cognitive function with surprising ease and how language is acquired at a fast pace in infancy. Modern neuroimaging methods permit to visualize the evolvement and the function of the language network. The present paper focuses on a specific methodology, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), providing an overview over studies on auditory language processing and acquisition. The methodology detects oxygenation changes elicited by functional activation of the cerebral cortex. The main advantages for research on auditory language processing and its development during infancy are an undemanding application, the lack of instrumental noise, and its potential to simultaneously register electrophysiological responses. Also it constitutes an innovative approach for studying developmental issues in infants and children. The review will focus on studies on word and sentence processing including research in infants and adults.}, language = {en} } @misc{BurmesterSauermannSpaleketal.2018, author = {Burmester, Juliane and Sauermann, Antje and Spalek, Katharina and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Sensitivity to salience}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {454}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412838}, pages = {19}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Sentence comprehension is optimised by indicating entities as salient through linguistic (i.e., information-structural) or visual means. We compare how salience of a depicted referent due to a linguistic (i.e., topic status) or visual cue (i.e., a virtual person's gaze shift) modulates sentence comprehension in German. We investigated processing of sentences with varying word order and pronoun resolution by means of self-paced reading and an antecedent choice task, respectively. Our results show that linguistic as well as visual salience cues immediately speeded up reading times of sentences mentioning the salient referent first. In contrast, for pronoun resolution, linguistic and visual cues modulated antecedent choice preferences less congruently. In sum, our findings speak in favour of a significant impact of linguistic and visual salience cues on sentence comprehension, substantiating that salient information delivered via language as well as the visual environment is integrated in the current mental representation of the discourse.}, language = {en} } @article{BurmesterSauermannSpaleketal.2018, author = {Burmester, Juliane and Sauermann, Antje and Spalek, Katharina and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Sensitivity to salience}, series = {Language, cognition and neuroscience}, volume = {33}, journal = {Language, cognition and neuroscience}, number = {6}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {2327-3798}, doi = {10.1080/23273798.2018.1428758}, pages = {784 -- 801}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Sentence comprehension is optimised by indicating entities as salient through linguistic (i.e., information-structural) or visual means. We compare how salience of a depicted referent due to a linguistic (i.e., topic status) or visual cue (i.e., a virtual person's gaze shift) modulates sentence comprehension in German. We investigated processing of sentences with varying word order and pronoun resolution by means of self-paced reading and an antecedent choice task, respectively. Our results show that linguistic as well as visual salience cues immediately speeded up reading times of sentences mentioning the salient referent first. In contrast, for pronoun resolution, linguistic and visual cues modulated antecedent choice preferences less congruently. In sum, our findings speak in favour of a significant impact of linguistic and visual salience cues on sentence comprehension, substantiating that salient information delivered via language as well as the visual environment is integrated in the current mental representation of the discourse.}, language = {en} } @article{TelkemeyerRossiKochetal.2009, author = {Telkemeyer, Silke and Rossi, Sonja and Koch, Stefan P. and Nierhaus, Till and Steinbrink, Jens and Poeppel, David and Obrig, Hellmuth and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Sensitivity of newborn auditory cortex to the temporal structure of sounds}, issn = {0270-6474}, doi = {10.1523/Jneurosci.1246-09.2009}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Understanding the rapidly developing building blocks of speech perception in infancy requires a close look at the auditory prerequisites for speech sound processing. Pioneering studies have demonstrated that hemispheric specializations for language processing are already present in early infancy. However, whether these computational asymmetries can be considered a function of linguistic attributes or a consequence of basic temporal signal properties is under debate. Several studies in adults link hemispheric specialization for certain aspects of speech perception to an asymmetry in cortical tuning and reveal that the auditory cortices are differentially sensitive to spectrotemporal features of speech. Applying concurrent electrophysiological (EEG) and hemodynamic (near-infrared spectroscopy) recording to newborn infants listening to temporally structured nonspeech signals, we provide evidence that newborns process nonlinguistic acoustic stimuli that share critical temporal features with language in a differential manner. The newborn brain preferentially processes temporal modulations especially relevant for phoneme perception. In line with multi-time-resolution conceptions, modulations on the time scale of phonemes elicit strong bilateral cortical responses. Our data furthermore suggest that responses to slow acoustic modulations are lateralized to the right hemisphere. That is, the newborn auditory cortex is sensitive to the temporal structure of the auditory input and shows an emerging tendency for functional asymmetry. Hence, our findings support the hypothesis that development of speech perception is linked to basic capacities in auditory processing. From birth, the brain is tuned to critical temporal properties of linguistic signals to facilitate one of the major needs of humans: to communicate.}, language = {en} } @article{HeekerenWartenburgerMarschneretal.2007, author = {Heekeren, Hauke R. and Wartenburger, Isabell and Marschner, Alexander and Mell, Thomas and Villringer, Arno and Reischies, Friedel M.}, title = {Role of ventral striatum in reward-based decision making}, issn = {0959-4965}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{MarschnerMellWartenburgeretal.2005, author = {Marschner, Alexander and Mell, Thomas and Wartenburger, Isabell and Villringer, Arno and Reischies, Friedel M. and Heekeren, Hauke R.}, title = {Reward-based decision-making and aging}, issn = {0361-9230}, year = {2005}, language = {en} }