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SPA current thesis projects

Please take a look at this document and my most recent publications to get an overview of different topics we currently offer and the research approach we take.

Current thesis topics

We only advise students who connect to our research projects to ensure the best possible supervision. Currently, we offer the following projects as thesis topics:

Mouse tracking version with adults or child version of an experiment on gradable adjectives

Contact: Charlotte Uhlemann

relevant paper by Alexandropoulou et al. (2022)

Required skills: Labvanced, statistics with R

Political beliefs and trustworthiness

Contact: Nicole Gotzner

relevant paper: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/a4u52_v1

Required skills: programming in PCIBEX, statistics with R

Measuring scalar implicature costs in reading

Contact: Morwenna Hoeks

see poster (and references therein)

Required skills: programming in PCIbex, statistics with R

Comparison classes and gradable adjective interpretation

Contact: Morwenna Hoeks

Required skills: linguistics background, programming in PCIbex, statistics with R

Brain signature of inferencing

Contact: Elli Tourtouri

Required skills: EEG lab training, linguistics background, statistics with R

Investigating abstraction with an emergent communication model or experiment

Contact: Kristina Kobrock

relevant paper: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/km28h_v3

Required skills: Solid programming skills in Python, experience with DL (e.g. PyTorch) or experiment design, statistics with R

I occasionally take on thesis topics beyond the ones listed above if students approach me with a well thought through idea and they have the relevant skills and background (in linguistics, experiment design and programming and statistics!) to undertake the research. You can learn to do empirical research with us if you connect to our existing projects. For a theoretical thesis, the choice of the topic is more flexible.