At the OEGP conference in Salzburg presenting our consensus based guidelines for reading research and the progress of the german lexicon project that applies the guidelines. Nice to be back at my Alma mater!
We're excited to announce today's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Daria Kostanian, will talk about "Development of coarse- and orientation-tuning for native letters in children" (Paper link: tinyurl.com/28fb4z89)
TODAY!! 24-3-2026, 11-12 am (CET)
Zoom link👇
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Tomorrow Morning! Join us it will be fun!
We're excited to announce March's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Prof. Katharina von Kriegstein, will talk about "The role of sensory thalami and cortico-thalamic connections in developmental dyslexia"
6-3-2026, 11-12 am (CET)
Register here for the Zoom link👇
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Happy New Year! 🥳 We're excited to announce January's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Dr Kurt Winsler, will talk about "Experience-Dependent Changes in Visual Processing of Letters".
Date: 21-1-2026, 9-10 am (CET)
Register here for the Zoom link 👇
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Join us tomorrow and discuss error prevention in psychological research with our guest speaker, @juliafstrand.bsky.social!
Sign up for the next virtual #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting!
We are thrilled to have @juliafstrand.bsky.social give us a guest talk on error prevention in psychological research!
Linguists, psychologists, and language researchers are all welcome! 😊
Register here: forms.gle/YoZpPxrRxXcG...
TODAY! In case you are interested ;)
Join our virtual Journal Club discussion in two days!
🚨Now out in *Open Mind* 🚨
"Can we utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers"
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with
@jobschepens.bsky.social @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social @nicolekmarx.bsky.social
Special thanks to the organising committee
@teap2026.bsky.social , and we're looking forward to meeting everyone in Tuebingen!
Visit our GEWONN website below for more information about our network: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...
"Neuro-cognitive advances in visual word recognition research.” Speakers: @ahaugg.bsky.social (University of Zurich), Sabrina Turker (University of Vienna), @janahasenacker.bsky.social (University of Erfurt), @benjamingagl.bsky.social (University of Cologne), Harald Baayen (University of Tuebingen)
"When and why instruction works: Mechanisms and boundary conditions of interventions in the science of learning" Speakers: @troembke.bsky.social (RWTH Aachen University), David Shanks (UCL), @olikli.bsky.social (U. of Regensburg), Simone Malejka (U. of Cologne), Bernhard Pastötter (U. of Trier)
"New directions in the study of bilingual language control" Speakers: Aaron Vandendaele (VUB Brussels University), Luigi Falanga (RWTH Aachen University), Andrea Philipp (RWTH Aachen University), Alex Titus (Radboud University/MPI for Psycholinguistics), L. Maria Sanchez (VUB Brussels University)
"Language Models as Tools for Psycholinguistics” Speakers: Fritz Günther (HU Berlin), Cosimo Iaia (Goethe University Frankfurt), Elif Ecem Çalışkan (LMU München), @jobschepens.bsky.social (University of Cologne), and @mariakna.bsky.social (Royal Holloway London)
"Symbolic representations in the visual pathway: From numbers and letters to words and semantics" Speakers: @jnpauli.bsky.social (U. of Cologne), @jacketaylor.bsky.social (Goethe U. Frankfurt), @sandervanbree.bsky.social (U. Giessen), Roman Janssen (Université Paris Cité), and Jiaxin You (Aalto U.)
Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2026 Conference!
See titles below:
Coming up next in our November's Journal Club meeting: We have happy to have Dr. Cosimo Iaia talk about the concreteness effect in representational alignment between human and language models. All are welcome to join us! Please share 😊
Registration link: forms.gle/8W6Xu9VK31df...
Great talk and discussion with @cyhsieh.bsky.social today, where we learnt about the impact of Chinese characters' semantic consistency on learning compound characters!
Join our journal club next Monday! We're happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social to discuss "What Chinese Compounds Tell Us About Reading"! Scan the QR code to register or click here: forms.gle/JV5cp1RHHaH2...
Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers!
Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker:
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More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!
Great journal club meeting on @marcelbinz.bsky.social et al.'s "Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition", moderated by @ksenijamisic.bsky.social. Lots of discussions on the utility and the future of cognitive models!
Stay tuned for our next meeting announcement. DM or email us to join!
We're happy to share a new preprint by our members, @jnpauli.bsky.social & @benjamingagl.bsky.social: "Understanding the Neuro-Cognitive Mechanisms of Orthographic Learning in Humans and Baboons: A Comparative Study Using Domain-Specific Mechanistic and Domain-General Connectionist Models"!
Welcome to join our journal club discussion tomorrow! 😄
Quarto website for the course: Open Science in applied linguistics and SLA With the following menu options: Schedule Tasks Blog Policies Contact Title: Open Science practices in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Elen Le Foll Summer 2025 University of Cologne Introduction This course introduces the principles and practices of Open Science in the context of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). These principles and practices promote transparent, credible, reproducible, and accessible science. Open Science aims to improve the reliability, validity, and generalisability of research findings. The movement started in social psychology, but is (slowly) gaining traction in the language sciences. Through a combination of presentations, discussions, hands-on activities, and real-life projects, we will learn about the key concepts and tools of Open Science, including open materials, open data, literate programming, open access, open peer review, Open Educational Resources (OERs), etc. Together, we will explore the implications of Open Science across all stages of the research process from research design and funding to data analysis and publication (including to non-academic audiences) in the field of applied linguistics and SLA. 107b Seminarraum B IV Mondays 12-13:30 Content BY Elen Le Foll 2025 Made with and Quarto View the source at Codeberg
This summer semester I'm very excited to teach a brand-new seminar on "Open Science practices in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition" @UniKoeln! ☀️
Some 20 B.A. and M.A. students studying #linguistics or a Romance language (+ one post-doc) […]
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Join our next journal club meeting on May 22 (Thur), 11am-12pm (CEST)! We'll discuss: @marcelbinz.bsky.social et al.'s (2024) "Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition"!
😊 Moderator: @ksenijamisic.bsky.social
👇 See link for more info. DM or email us for the Zoom link!
Join our lecture on #standardisation in research this afternoon in Cologne or remotely! Registration still available - More info here: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...
Three more days for registration! 😊
Hasenäcker, J., Wettmann, J. & Domahs, F.(2025).Kann leichte Sprache zu leicht sein? Eine zielgruppenorientierte Studie zur Wirksamkeit der Genitivvermeidung. Linguistische Berichte,281,39-59. Die Publikation ist aus dem Abschlussprojekt von Juliane Wettmann hervorgegangen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
🚀 My first PhD paper is out! 🚀
"How do multiple meanings affect word learning and remapping?" was published in Memory & Cognition!
Big thanks to my supervisors and co-authors (Iring Koch & @troembke.bsky.social).
Curious? Read it here: rdcu.be/eeY9o
#CognitivePsychology #WordLearning #Bilingualism