PD Dr. Lars Konieczny
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- Sprechstunde (n.V.)
Research interests
- Theoretical, Empirical, and Computational Psycholinguistics
- Eye-movements reasearch
- Reading
- Spoken language comprehension in the Visual-World-paradigm
- Spatial reasoning and wayfinding
- Cognitive modelling (ACT-R, Connectionist Modelling)
- Embodied Cognition
Projects
- PROSA (1999-2001, funded by the DFG toDr. B. Hemforth , Dr.L. Konieczny, and Prof. Dr. G. Strube)
- PERFORM, SFB 378 "Ressourcenadaptive kognitive Prozesse", Saarland University, Saarbrücken (1999-2001, fundedby the DFG toProf. Dr. H. Uszkoreit and Dr. L. Konieczny)
- ELoC (2007-2010, funded by the DFG)
- Embodied Anaphora (2010+, Anschubfinanzierung der Universität Freiburg)
- KUFA (2008-2010)
- Pop-Sci (2010-2013)
- Graduiertenkolleg 1624/1 "Frequenzeffekte in der Sprache" (2009+)
- CSPACE (R8), SFB TR8 "Raumkognition" (2010-2014)
Supervision (Ph.D.)
- Daniel Müller, GrK "Frequenz"
- Helmut Weldle
- Sascha Wolfer
- Michael Schäfer, GrK "Frequenz" (2nd supervisor)
- Christian Lang (2nd supervisor)
- Natalia Ilin (2nd supervisor)
Teaching
Complete list of teaching activities
External courses
Vita
- 1981-1990: Studies of Philosophy, Psychology, and Linguistics at the University of Bochum and Mannheim
- 1990: Diploma in Psychology. Master Thesis: The impact of lexical and contextual information on structural ambiguity resolution.
- 1990 -1991: Research Assistant at the University of Bochum
- 1991-1996: Research Assistant at the University of Freiburg
- 1994-1996: Ph.D. student in the doctoral program on Human and Machine Intelligence at University of Freiburg
- 1996 Ph.D. (Dr. Phil.) in Psychology. Ph.D. Thesis: A semantics-oriented parsing approach.
- 1996-1999: Post-doc fellowship in the Cognitive Science graduate program at the University of Saarbrücken
- 1999-2000: Research Assistant at the Computational Linguistics Department at the University of Saarbrücken
- 2000-2004: C1 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (~ lecturer) at the CCS, University of Freiburg
- 2004: Habilitation in Psychology at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken
- 2004-2010: C2 Hochschuldozent (~ associate professor, senior lecturer) at the CCS, University of Freiburg
- Oct. 2009 - March 2010: Internal Senior Research Fellow at the FRIAS, School of Language & Literature
- Oct. 2010 - September 2011: Internal Senior Research Fellow at the FRIAS, School of Language & Literature
- since Dec. 2010: Akademischer Rat (~ associate professor, lecturer) at the CCS, University of Freiburg
Academic activities
- Head of Psycholinguistic Research Lab at the CCS Freiburg
- Member of the Hermann-Paul-Centre for Linguistics (HPCL)
- Reviews for several journals, and organizations (e.g. Journal of Memory and Language, Psychological Review, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, National Science Foundation (USA), CUNY conference on human sentence processing, etc.).
- Member of the AMLaP advisory board since 1998
- Member of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), the German Society for Psychology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs), German Cognitive Science Society (Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, GK)
- Member of the publication committee of the German Cognitive Science Society (Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, GK)
- Program chair of AMLaP 1998, Freiburg, Sept. 24-26., 1998.
Recent Publications and Presentations (2009+)
2011
- Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., & Hemforth, B. (2011). Expectations and coreference: how alternative constructions and referring expressions can serve as cues. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
- Schwarzkopf, S., Weldle, H., Müller, D., & Konieczny, L. (2011). Mental simulation of spatial perspective during sentence comprehension. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
- Shuval, N., Konieczny, L., & Hemforth, B. (2011). Secret agents or sleeping beauties: What happens to repaired constituents? In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
- Tenbrink, T., Berbmann, E., & Konieczny, L. (2011). Wayfinding and description strategies in an unfamiliar complex building. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
- Wolk, C., Wolfer, S. A., Baumann, P., Hemforth, B., & Konieczny, L. (2011). Acquiring english dative verbs: proficiency effects in german l2 learners. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
- Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., & Hemforth, B. (2011). Coreference in Portuguese: pragmatic expectations based on alternative constructions and referring expressions. In A. Karmiloff-Smith, B. Kokinov, N. Nersessian (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science - EuroCogSci 2011, Sofia, 21-24 May 2011. (pdf)
- Wolk, C., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S. A., Konieczny, L., & Hemforth, B. (2011). Acquiring english dative verbs: proficiency effects in german l2 learners. In The 24th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Stanford, CA: .
2010
- Konieczny, L. (2010). The Psychological Reality of Local Syntactic Coherences. Invited talk at the guest lecture series of the SFB 732, University of Stuttgart, July 8 2010
- Konieczny, L. (2010). The Psychological Nature of pronominal anaphora. Invited talk at Text structure: Form, Meaning, and Processing. Göttingen, July 1-3 2010
- Konieczny, L. (2010). Embodied Perspectives in Language Comprehension. Invited talk at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, June 28 2010.
- Konieczny, L. (2010). Peripatetic eyes, local syntactic coherences, and their rationale. Invited talk at the First Peripatetic Conference on Dynamic Psycholinguistics. Zakopane, Poland. May 28-30 2010.
- Hemforth, B., Konieczny, L., Scheepers, C., Colonna, S., Schimke, S., & Pynte, J. (2010). Language specific preferences in anaphor resolution: Exposure or Gricean maxims? Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. August 2010, Portland, USA (pdf)
- Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Wolfer, S. A., Baumann, P., & Müller, D. (2010). Anaphors and Local Coherences. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. August 2010, Portland, USA (pdf)
- Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Haser, V., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., & Baumann, P. (2010). Anaphern sind in Zeigegesten verankert - der Pointing-Compatibility Effect. In Frings, C., Mecklinger, A., Wentura, D., Zimmer, H.D. (eds.). Beiträge zur 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Lengerich, Pabst Science Publishers, p. 62.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., & Baumann, P. (2010). Grounding und Emergenz von Spracherwerb und Sprachverarbeitung: Ein konnektionistischer Ansatz. In Frings, C., Mecklinger, A., Wentura, D., Zimmer, H.D. (eds.). Beiträge zur 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Lengerich, Pabst Science Publishers, p. 122.
- Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., & Hemforth, B. (2010). Expecting coreference: the role of alternative constructions. In Proceedings of the 23d Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, March 2010.
- Hemforth, B., Konieczny, L., Scheepers, C., Colonna, S., Schimke, S., & Pynte, J. (2010). Gricean principles and frequency in anaphor resolution. In Proceedings of the 23d Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, March 2010..
- Konieczny, L. (2010). Eye-tracking. Eine Einführung. Workshop im Universitären Schwerpunkt Bildung: "KinderKöpfe", Universität Erfurt, 29.1.2010.
- Konieczny, L., & Müller, D. (2010). Das sprachliche Arbeitsgedächtnis: Kapazität oder Erfahrung? Psychologische Rundschau, 61(1), 43-50. (pdf)
- Konieczny, L., Haser, V., Müller, D., Weldle, H., Wolfer, S. A., Baumann, P., & Hemforth, B. (2010). Grounding of anaphora in pointing gestures. In Proceedings of the 23d Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, March 2010.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S. A., & Baumann, P. (2010). Emergence of language comprehension from multiple task integration – a connectionist investigation. In Proceedings of the 23d Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, March 2010.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Wolfer, S. A., Baumann, P., & Müller, D. (2010). Local syntactic coherences violate structural binding domains in on-line anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the 23d Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, March 2010.
- Wiener, J., Hoelscher, C., Büchner, S., & Konieczny, L. (submitted). Gaze bias and gaze control during wayfinding. Journal of Vision.
2009
- Hachmann, W., Müller, D., & Konieczny, L. (2009). Individual differences in the processing of complex sentences. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st annual conference of the cognitive science society (p. 309-314). Austin, TX.
- Hansen-Schirra, S., Hansen, S., Wolfer, S., & Konieczny, L. (2009). Fachkommunikation, Popularisierung, Übersetzung: empirische Vergleiche für das Sprachenpaar Englisch-Deutsch. Linguistik online.
- Hemforth, B., Hallé, P., Segui, J., & Konieczny, L. (2009). Relative clauses: Does right-branching or parallelism of syntactic roles make object extraction easier? In Proceedings of the 22nd annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
- Hemforth, B., Scheepers, C., Konieczny, L., Pynte, J., & Colonna, S. (2009). Language specific preferences in anaphor resolution. In Proceedings of the 19th annual meeting of the society for text & discourse. Rotterdam.
- Konieczny, L. (2009). Local syntactic coherences and the representation of language in the mind. In P. Knöferle (Ed.), Colloquium Language and Cognition. Bielefeld, 22.11.2009
- Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Baumann, P., Hachmann, W., & Wolfer, S. A. (2009). Local syntactic coherence interpretation, and how prosody modulates it. In Proceedings of the 22nd annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
- Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Hachmann, W., Schwarzkopf, S., & Wolfer, S. A. (2009). Local syntactic coherence interpretation. evidence from a visual world study. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the the 31st annual conference of the cognitive science society (p. 1133-1138). Austin, TX. (pdf)
- Konieczny, L., Ruh, N., & Müller, D. (2009). What’s in an error? A closer look at SRNs processing relative clauses. In A. Howes, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the the 9th international conference on cognitive modeling. Manchester, UK. (pdf)
- Konieczny, L., & Weldle, H. (2009). Embodied perspektives. In P. Auer & M. Hilpert (Eds.), Frias workshop: Grammar, space and cognition. Freiburg.
- Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Wolfer, S., Müller, D., Baumann, P., Feldmeth, A. K., et al. (2009). Local syntactic coherences interfere with on-line anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the the 15th annual conference architectures and mechanisms for language processing. Barcelona, Spain.
- Müller, D., Hachmann, W., & Konieczny, L. (2009). Local syntactic and semantic coherence in reading. In Proceedings of the the 15th annual conference architectures and mechanisms for language processing. Barcelona, Spain.
- Müller, D., Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Baumann, P., & Wolfer, S. A. (2009). Local syntactic coherences interfere with anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the 15th european conference on eye movements. Southampton, UK.
- Ragni, M., Fangmeier, T., Bittner, A., & Konieczny, L. (2009). Incremental model construction: Eye-movements reflect mental representations and operations – even if there is nothing to look at. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the the 31st annual conference of the cognitive science society (p. 3046-3051). Austin, TX. (pdf)
- Weldle, H., Baumann, P., Müller, D., Wolfer, S. A., & Konieczny, L. (2009). Connectionist modeling of syntax and anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the 22nd annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. Davis, CA.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S. A., & Baumann, P. (2009a). Connectionist modeling of situated language processing: Language and meaning acquisition from an embodiment perspective. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st annual conference of the cognitive science society. (p. 827-832). Austin, TX. (pdf)
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S. A., & Baumann, P. (2009b). Situated language acquisition and processing in integrative connectionist models. In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the embodied and situated language processing. Rotterdam.
- Wiener, J., Hoelscher, C., Büchner, S., & Konieczny, L. (2009). How the geometry of space controls visual attention during spatial decision making. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the the 31st annual conference of the cognitive science society. (p. 2286-2291). Austin, TX. (pdf)