Department of Psycholinguistic Studies

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Our research interests

Members of the Department of Psycholinguistic Studies are people whose major goal is exploring the processes responsible for our everyday use of language. The Department focuses not only on psycholinguistic aspects of language processing, i.e., exploring the psychological models of acquisition, representation, comprehension, and production of language, but also on the neurological bases of language acquisition, use, and loss. A robust area of research is bi- and multilingualism in such contexts as the structure of multilingual lexicons, interaction between languages in the bi- and multilingual minds (dr A.Lijewska, mgr A.Klecha - our ex-PhD Student), the study of memory in the process of language development in children and adults (dr H.Wysocka) as well as mental reality of translation processes in bilingual language users (prof. UAM dr hab. B.Whyatt), the use of lexical tools by humans (prof. R. Lew), and the processing of figurative language by second language users and neurologically disordered patients (dr K.Rataj, mgr E.Tomczak, dr K.Jankowiak).

MA seminars offered by the Department of Psycholinguistic Studies

Past:

Prof. UAM dr hab. Bogusława Whyatt - Translation Process Research
Prof. UAM dr hab. Bogusława Whyatt - Translation from a psycholinguistic perspective
Dr Agnieszka Lijewska - Open your eyes to the multilingual mind – language processing in bilinguals and multilinguals
Dr Agnieszka Lijewska - The multilingual mind – language processing in bilinguals and multilinguals
Dr Karolina Rataj - Brain, language, and creativity (1MA full-time)

Present:

Prof. UAM dr hab. Bogusława Whyatt - Translation Process Research

Doctoral research

If you would like to conduct doctoral research in our Department, please contact Prof. UAM dr hab. Bogusława Whyatt.

Psycholinguistic Research Group

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Guest lectures organized by the Department of Psycholinguistic Studies

dr Vladimir Žegarac, University of Bedfordshire.
Prof. Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim.
Prof. Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University.
Prof. dr hab. Piotr Francuz, Katedra Psychologii Eksperymentalnej, KUL.
Mercedes Garcia Martinez, Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology, Copenhagen Business School.
Prof. Debra Titone, McGill University, Canada, 2015.
Prof. Reinhold Kliegl, Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, 2016.
Prof. Harald Clahsen, Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam, 2016.
Prof. Walter van Heuven, Faculty of Science, University of Nottingham, 2017.

Workshops organized by the Department of Psycholinguistic Studies

Statistics for psycholinguists by dr Grzegorz Krajewski, Wydział Psychologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2015
Linear Mixed Models by prof. Reinhold Kliegl, 2016
Computational modeling in psycholinguistics by prof. Walter van Heuven, 2017

Grant projects in the Department of Psycholinguistic Studies

2018-2021 The role of inhibition in semantic processing in a within-language and between-language context: Event-related potential studies. National Science Center, OPUS 13, no. 2017/25/B/HS6/00676; Principal Investigator: dr Karolina Rataj
2018-2021 Novel metaphoric meaning comprehension in bilingualism: An event-related potential study. National Science Centre, no. 2017/25/N/HS2/00615; Principal Investigator: dr Katarzyna Jankowiak
2016-2019 Effect of Directionality in the Translation Process - the EDiT project. National Science Centre, UMO - 2015/17/B/HS6/03944; Project manager: prof. UAM dr hab. Bogusława Whyatt
2013-2016 Para-Trans Research Project - decision process in paraphrase and translation. National Science Centre (UMO – 2012/07/E/HS2/00661; Project manager: prof. UAM dr hab. Bogusława Whyatt
project webpage: https://paratrans.wordpress.com/ [external link]
2013-2016 Cognate processing and the structure of the mental lexicon in multilingual speakers - a study of reaction times to visual stimuli and an analysis of eye movements in reading. National Science Centre, UMO-2012/07/B/HS6/00487; Project manager: dr Agnieszka Lijewska.