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 and neural mechanisms underlying human language processing, with a focus on how information at various levels of representation are coordinated in real time and under different conditions

Specific Areas of Research

Effects of contextual information on online meaning construction
Interaction of language and vision in situated language comprehension
Information theoretic approaches to pragmatic and conversational inferencing
Online processing of metaphorical language
Human brain electrophysiology
Effects of human-machine interaction on linguistic and cognitive processes

Research Methods

Event-related potentials (ERP)
Eye-tracking
Behavioral measures
Crowd-sourcing techniques