Mannheim Eye LAB

Psycholinguistic Research Lab

In our psycholinguistic research lab, we conduct eye-tracking, pupillometry, skin-conductance and reaction time experiments to investigate monolingual and bilingual language processing and its effects on other cognitive processes.

Researchers

Dr. Agnieszka Ewa Krautz

Dr. Dieter Thoma

Many student researchers working on their BA and MA theses

Hopp, H., Jakisch, J., Sturm, S., Becker, C., & Thoma, D. (2019). Integrating multilingualism into the early foreign language classroom: Empirical and teaching perspectives. International Multilingual Research Journal, 31, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2019.1669519
Hopp, H., Vogelbacher, M., Kieseier, T., & Thoma, D. (2019). Bilingual advantages in early foreign language learning: Effects of the minority and the majority language. Learning and Instruction, 61, 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2019.02.001
Mijatović, M., & Tytus, A. E. (2019). The bi-personal bilingual: a study of the perceived feeling of a changed self. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22, 224-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2016.1248373
Tytus, A. E. (2019). Active and dormant languages in the multilingual mental lexicon. International Journal of Multilingualism, 16, 357-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2018.1502295
Thoma, D., & Baum, A. (2018). Reduced language processing automaticity induces weaker emotions in bilinguals regardless of learning context. Emotion, tba, 1-12 (i. E.). https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000502
Thoma, D., & Tytus, A. E. (2018). How cross-linguistic differences in the grammaticalization of future time reference influence intertemporal choices. Cognitive Science, 42, 974-1000. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12525
Tytus, A. E. (2018). Rising to the bilingual challenge: self-reported experiences of managing life with two languages. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 21, 207-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2016.1153598
Čavar, F., & Tytus, A. E. (2018). Moral judgement and foreign language effect: when the foreign language becomes the second language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39, 17-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2017.1304397
Davydova, J., Tytus, A. E., & Schleef, E. (2017). Acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness by German learners of English : a study in perceptions of quotative be like. Linguistics : An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 55, 783-812. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0011
Tytus, A. E. (2017). Asymmetrical priming effects : an exploration of trilingual German–English–French lexico-semantic memory. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46, 1625-1644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9512-0
Tytus, A. E., & Rundblad, G. (2017). Cross-linguistic semantic transfer in bilingual Chinese-English speakers. International journal of Applied Linguistics : INJAL, 27, 697-711. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12174
Tytus, A. E., & Rundblad, G. (2016). Cross-language priming as a means of investigating bilingual conceptual representations : a comparison of visual and auditory modality. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6, 440-466. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.14020.tyt

Tytus, A. E. (2018). Representation of the trilingual lexico-semantic memory : insights from translation and picture-recognition tasks. In , 7th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics - L3 2018 : 25 - 26 June 2018, Singapore, Singapore : proceedings (S. tba). , Global Science & Technology Forum: Singapore.