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.
Planned projects
- What is the role of inner speech in novel task learning?
- What is the nature of infants’ phonological representations during implicit naming or prediction?
- What are the neural correlates of individual variability in inner speech tendencies?
- Do verbal thinking tendencies play a role in the susceptibility to cognitive biases and the adoption of heuristic thinking?
- How does vocabulary development affect abstract thinking?
- Do learners retain recently learned phrase structure representations, and can they apply the learned representations in a top-down manner?
Supervised Master Thesis Projects
Tiziana Srdoc:
How do specialized brain regions responsible for object recognition and language-related processes develop?
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is used to investigate the brain regions that play a role in visual object recognition, the understanding of object names and the production of object names in 3-year-old children.
Viktoria Groiß: Is Perceiving Speech Perceiving Gestures? The Role of the Motor System in Phoneme Perception
The specific manipulation of the articulatory apparatus should enable us to gain insight into the role of the motor system in phoneme perception.
Sandra Regen:
Eye-Tracking study with infants (>1;0); The goal is to test whether seeing articulatory movements stimulates the processing of certain speech sounds in young children.