Student information

Looking for supervision of your master thesis?

It is possible to complete a master thesis in our group under the supervision of Prof. Jutta Mueller and other group members.

Would you like to do an eye-tracking, EEG or fNIRS study in our lab on a topic related to our research program? Please have a look at the following list. If one of the topics is of interest to you, please contact us.

If you would like to be supervised by us with a project of your own choice, please also contact us so that we can work out possibilities together.

[Translate to English:] Eye-Tracking Setup mit zwei separaten Schreibtischen und zwei Frauen, die arbeiten

Selection of supervised master theses

Tiziana Srdoc:
How do specialized brain regions responsible for object recognition and language-related processes develop?

Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), researchers investigated the brain regions involved in visual object recognition, understanding object names, and producing object names in 3-year-old children. The master’s thesis “Lighting up the developing brain: three-year-olds’ hemodynamic responses in an object-viewing-listening-naming paradigm” is available via u:theses.

Viktoria Groiß:
Do our articulatory organs influence our perception of speech?

The study investigated whether our articulatory organs (lips, tongue, etc.) and the associated brain regions play a role not only in the production but also in the perception of individual speech sounds (“phonemes”). The master’s thesis “Is Perceiving Speech Perceiving Gestures? The Role of the Motor System in Phoneme Perception” is available on u:theses.

Sandra Regen:
Do 7- to 9-month-old babies imagine speech sounds?

An eye-tracking study called “MOUTH” investigated whether observing articulatory movements stimulates the processing of certain speech sounds in infants. The master’s thesis “Covert activation of speech sounds in preverbal infants? A gesture-sound priming study” is available via u:theses.