Dr. Les Sikos
Psycholinguistics Group
Dept of Language Science and Technology
Saarland University
Building C7.1, Room 1.13
66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
E-mail: sikos@coli.uni-saarland.de
Research Interests
- Cognitive neuroscience of language, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics
- Use of diverse methods including event related potentials (ERP), eye tracking, behavioral measures, and crowd sourcing techniques to explore cognitive/neural mechanisms underlying human language processing
Specific Areas of Research
- The syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface
- Effects of contextual information on online meaning construction and representation
- The processing of metaphorical language
- Pragmatic and conversational inferencing