Past GeWoNN Events
TRUST Open Lecture 2025
In March 2025, we held our the TRUST open lecture in Cologne, presented by Prof. Marc Brysbaert (Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium) on the topic of Increasing Replicability or Stalling Scientific Progress?.
After the talk there was a dynamic panel session, featuring Dr. Katie von Holzen (Department of Linguistics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany), Dr. Elen Le Foll (Department of Romance Studies, University of Cologne, Germany), and Prof. Dr. Andreas Glöckner (Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany). The panel session was moderated by Anna Leung (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany).
TeaP 2025 Symposia
We organised three symposia at the 67th Annual Meeting of the General Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society (TeaP 2025), held in Frankfurt, Germany, from the 9th to the 12th of March 2025.
The first symposium, organised by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Gagl, was titled "From Babies to Semantics: Leveraing Language Models as Tools for Psycholinguistic Research". The second symposium, titled "Levels of Orthographic Representation: From Retina to Word Form", was organised by Dr. Jack Taylor and Mr. Janos Pauli. The third symposium, organised by Dr. Tanja Roembke and Dr. Xenia Schmalz, was titled "Statistical Learning and Its Role in Language and Reading Acquisition". Check out the event highlights!
QuaSemO 2024
In October 2024, we met in Munich to discuss the extent to which orthographic structure conveys information about the meaning of words differs between languages. In this meeting, we discussed the extent to which readers can grasp information about the meaning of words, even if they do not know the word. We brought together interdisciplinary experts in psycholinguistics, complex system scientists, and educators to discuss how to quantify the differences between languages. This event was organised by Xenia Schmalz, Dušica Filipović Đurđević, Benjamin Gagl, Jana Hasenäcker, Tanja Römbke, and Alexandra Schmitterer.
TeaP 2024 Symposia
We organised two symposia at the 66th Annual Meeting of the General Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society (TeaP 2024), held in Regensburg, Germany, from the 17th to the 20th of March 2024. The first symposium, organised by Dr. Xenia Schmalz, was titled "Methods in Reading and Language Research". This symposium presented examples of where experimental methods and big data approaches can provide insights into language and reading research. The second symposium, organised by Dr. Tanja Roembke and Ms. Matilde Simonetti, was titled "The Impact of Language Experience on Learning and Memory". This symposium explored how language experience can facilitate or interfere with the acquisition and memory of new information.
ESCoP 2023 Symposia
We organised three symposia at the 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2023), held in Porto, Portugal, from the 6th to the 9th of September 2023. The themes of the symposia ranged from research methodology in word and reading research to the cognitive processes of word acquisition.