Imke Franzmeier
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![]() | Ph.D student / doctoral researcher
phone: +49 761 203 5022 room: 01009
| Center for Cognitive Science Friedrichstr. 50 D-79098 Freiburg, Germany |
Research interests
- Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Psychology
- Neuropsychological foundations of language understanding
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Curriculum Vitae
- since June 2010: graduate scholarship of the Ev. Studienwerk e.V. Villigst
- since Jan. 2011: PhD student, University of Freiburg, Centre for Cognitive Science (Supervised by Prof. Dr. Evelyn Ferstl)
- Oct. 2009 - Dec. 2010: PhD student , School of Psychology, University of Sussex, England
- Oct. 2005 - March 2009: Bachelor of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück (focus: Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology)
- WS 2007/ 2008 Semester abroad and research project at the University of Sussex, England
Publications
- Franzmeier, I., Hutton, S. & Ferstl, E. (2012). The role of the temporal lobe in contextual sentence integration: A single pulse TMS study. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2011.556248.
Conferences
Talks
- Franzmeier, I., Hutton, S. & Ferstl. E.C. (2011). Introducing combined TMS and eyetracking into neurolinguistic research: An exploratory approach to semantic processing. Embodied & Situated Language processing 2011 (EPSL 2011). Bielefeld, Germany, August 2011.
- Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl. E.C. (2011). Effect of positive and negative mood on the hemispheric involvement in semantic processing. 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D). Poitier, France, July 2011.
- Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl. E.C. (2010). Using TMS to explore role of the cerebral hemispheres in contextual sentence integration. Workshop of the PsychoLinguistics in the South East (PsyLingSE). London, UK, March 2010
Poster presentations
- Franzmeier, I., Reis, J. & Ferstl, E. C. (2012). Cortical background of sentence understanding - a single pulse TMS study. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). Mannheim, April 2012.
- Franzmeier, I., Hutton, S. & Ferstl, E.C. (2011). Exploratory approach to semantic processing during reading: Introducing combined TMS and Eyetracking into neurolinguistic research. Spring meeting of the British Neuropsychological Society (BNS). London, GB, March 2011.
- Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl, E.C. (2010). Prozesse der kontextuellen Satzintegration in der linken und rechten Hemisphäre? Eine TMS Studie. 10. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Aphasieforschung und -behandlung (GAB). Münster, November 2010.
- Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl, E.C. (2010). Investigations in contextual sentence integration and the role of the cerebral hemispheres - A single pulse TMS study. Annual Meeting of the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN). Bristol, GB, September 2010.
Academic activities
Sachmittelstipendium für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen der Herman Paul School of Language Sciences (2011).
Postgraduate Travel Bursary of the British Neuropsychological Society, Spring 2011.
- Member of the Hermann Paul School of Language Sciences
- Member of the Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft
- Highly commended poster prize 2010. Awarded by the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience: Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl. E.C. (2010). Investigations in contextual sentence integration and the role of the cerebral hemispheres - A single pulse TMS study. September 2010.
- ERASMUS-Scholarship (Praktikumsstipendium des EU-Bildungsprogramms LLP für Forschungsaufenthalte im europäischen Ausland, 2008)
Teaching
- Summer term 2012 - Neurolinguistische Aspekte der Mehrsprachigkeit
- Winter term 2011/12 - Einführung in die kognitive Neurowissenschaft

