Research Interests - Susanne Dietrich

Language processing

- Cognitive strategies during sentence comprehension (monitoring, error detection, and control)

- Extension of the classical language brain network
- Prediction and reconstruction during fast speaking rates
- Neuroplasticity of the primary visual cortex in blind people
- Nonverbal and verbal communication using interjections
- Differentiation of vegetative/affective and intentional nonverbal vocalizations in subjects with Asperger syndrome
- Semiotic aspects of nonverbal vocalizations

Current project

Context-dependent speech comprehension: processing of discourse coherence using presuppositions