Invited talks & workshops

Choi, S. (2019, May). Figure and Ground in Language and Cognition: Evidence from German and Korean. Invited talk at CNRS & University of Paris 8, Paris, France

Choi, S., & Ansorge, U. (2018, October). Differences in Language Usage Between Korean and German on Spatial Motion and How They Affect Cognitive Performance: Results From the Vienna Study. Invited talk at the Gachon-Wien International Workshop, Jeju National University, South Korea.

Kroiss, A. (2018, October). How the first language influences the second: A cross-linguistic comparison of event conceptualization in German and Korean L2 speakers. Invited talk at the Gachon-Wien International Workshop, Jeju National University, South Korea.

Goller, F. (2018, September). Cognitive Psychology and Visual Attention: An Introduction. Invited talk at Gachon University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Kroiss, A. (2018, February). Leg den Apfel auf den Teller, aber beweg nur den Teller. Eine sprachvergleichende Studie zur kognitiven Verarbeitung von Bewegungsereignissen. Invited talk at the Science Day of Höhere Lehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Berufe und der Bildungsanstalt für Elementarpädagogik Institut Sankta Christiana, Frohsdorf, Austria.

Choi, S. (2017, June). Language and cognition for space. Invited talk at the 20th meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Goller, F. (2017, September). To see or not to see: about studying visual attention. Invited talk at University of Macau, Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

Choi, S. (2016, September). Language and cognition for space. Invited talk at Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Goller, F. (2016, September). Capture of visual attention. Invited talk at Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Goller, F. (2016, June). Programming psychological experiments using Matlab - a beginners guide. Invited workshop at University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Book chapters

Choi, S. (2018). Language-specificity in the early acquisition of motion expressions in Korean with a comparison to French and English. In M. Hickmann, E. Veneziano, & H. Jisa (eds.), Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR): Sources of variations in first language acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners (pp. 103-122). John Benjamins.

Choi, S. (to appear). The development of sentence-ending epistemic/evidential markers in young Korean children. In U. Stephany, A. Aksu-Koç, & M. Voeikova (eds.), Development of Modality in First Language Acquisition: A Crosslinguistic Perspective. Mouton de Gruyter.

Conference contributions

 

2019

Choi, S., Goller, F., Shin, J., Yun, H., Kroiss, A., & Ansorge, U. (2019). Linguistic and nonlinguistic processing of Figure and Ground in motion events: Evidence from German and Korean. Poster to be presented at the ExAPP 2019 (Conference on Exprimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation), Münster, Germany, September 26-28, 2019.

Kroiss, A., Goller, F., Ansorge, U., & Choi, S. (2019). Spatial language and spatial cognition in second language acquisition: The case of German and Korean L1 and L2 speakers. Poster to be presented at the SLRF 2019 (Second Language Research Forum), East Lansing, USA, September 20-22, 2019.

Kroiss, A., Goller, F., Shin, J., Ansorge, U., & Choi, S. (2019). I see what I speak: Event conceptualization in German and Korean L1 and L2 speakers. Poster presented at the EuroSLA 29 (Conference of the European Second Language Association), Lund, Sweden, August 28-31, 2019.

Kroiss, A., Goller, F., Shin, J., Ansorge, U., & Choi, S. (2019). As far as the eye can see: Event conceptualization in German and Korean native speakers and second language learners. Poster presented at the ISBMS 2019 (International Symposium of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech), Chania, Greece, August 27-30, 2019.

Ansorge, U., Engel, F., Strini, T., & Siener, A. (2019). An Investigation of Spatial Stimulus-Response: Compatibility Effects Based on German Particles. Talk presented at the TeaP 2019 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen/Conference of Experimental Psychologists), London, England, April 15-17, 2019.

Goller, F., Schöberl, T., & Ansorge, U. (2019). Not all onsets are created equal: ERP evidence for a top-down control over attention capture by onset cues. Talk presented at the TeaP 2019 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen/Conference of Experimental Psychologists), London, England, April 15-17, 2019.

Kroiss, A., Goller, F., Shin, J., Ansorge, U., & Choi, S. (2019). The eyes have it: Event conceptualization in German and Korean native speakers. Talk presented at the TeaP 2019 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen/Conference of Experimental Psychologists), London, England, April 15-17, 2019.

2018

Goller F., Choi, S., & Ansorge, U. (2018). Spatial Language and Visual Attention: A new Interaction between Language and Cognition. Talk presented at the Psychonomics 2018 (59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society), New Orleans, USA, November 15 - 18, 2018.

Goller F., Choi, S., & Ansorge, U. (2018). Spatial language and visual attention: A new approach to test linguistic relativity. Poster presented at the CogSci2018 (40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society), Madison, USA, July 25-28, 2018.

Kroiss, A., Goller, F., Ansorge, U., & Choi, S. (2018). ‘Put the apple on the plate but just move the plate‘: Event perception in German and Korean speakers. Poster presented at the CogSci 2018 (40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society), Madison, USA, July 25-28, 2018.

Goller F., Choi, S., & Ansorge, U. (2018). Language and capture of visual attention: A case of linguistic relativity. Talk presented at the LCM 2018 (8th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind), Granville, USA, July 17-19, 2018.

Kroiss, A., Goller, F., Ansorge, U., & Choi, S. (2018). On putting ‘cap to pen’ or ‘pen to cap’: A cross-linguistic comparison of motion expressions, and gaze and memory behaviors in German and Korean speakers. Talk presented at the LCM 2018 (8th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind), Granville, USA, July 17-19, 2018.

Baier, D., & Ansorge, U. (2018). Do top-down search templates for color depend on language?. Poster presented at the VSS 2018 (Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society), St. Pete Beach, USA, May 18-23, 2018.

Goller F., Choi, S., & Ansorge, U. (2018). Whereof one cannot speak: How language and capture of visual attention interact. Poster presented at the VSS 2018 (Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society), St. Pete Beach, USA, May 18-23, 2018.

Goller, F., Choi, S., & Ansorge, U. (2018). A cross-linguistic perspective on attention capture: Is there an influence of the participants’ native language?. Poster presented at the 13th Conference of the Austrian Society of Psychology (Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie), Linz, Austria, April 12 - 14, 2018.

Baier, D., & Ansorge, U. (2018). Language effects in top-down search for colors. Talk presented at the TeaP 2018 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen/Conference of Experimental Psychologists), Marburg, Germany, March 11-14, 2018.

Goller F., Choi, S., & Ansorge, U. (2018). I spy with my little eye: About features that capture the attention of Korean speakers but not of German speakers. Talk presented at the TeaP 2018 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen/Conference of Experimental Psychologists), Marburg, Germany, March 11-14, 2018.

Kroiss, A., Goller, F., Ansorge, U., & Choi, S. (2018). On putting ‘cap to pen’ or ‘pen to cap’: A cross-linguistic comparison of motion expressions, gaze and memory in German and Korean speakers. Poster presented at the TeaP 2018 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen/Conference of Experimental Psychologists), Marburg, Germany, March 11-14, 2018.

2017

Kroiss, A. (2017). How Korean Learners of German express, perceive, and remember caused Motion Events. A crosslinguistic Approach in Language and Cognition. Talk presented at the ÖLT 2017 (Österreichische Linguistiktagung/Austrian Conference on Linguistics), Klagenfurt, Austria, December 8-10, 2017.

Goller F., Ansorge, U. & Choi, S. (2017). Spatial Language and Cognition: Cross-linguistic differences in gaze behavior and visual attention between Korean and German speakers. Talk presented at the Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition Workshop, Trondheim, Norway, December 6-7, 2017.

Goller, F. & Ansorge, U. (2017). A cross-linguistic perspective on attention capture: Is there an influence of the participants’ native language?. Poster presented at the ECVP (European Conference on Visual Perception), Berlin, Germany, August 27-31, 2017.

Goller F., Lee, D., Ansorge, U. & Choi, S. (2017). Does our native language determine what we pay attention to? A cross-linguistic study of gaze behaviour between Korean and German speakers. Poster presented at the ECEM (European Conference on Eye Movements), Wuppertal, Germany, August 20-24, 2017.

Kroiss, A. (2017). Spatial relations and motion expressions in German and Korean. Talk presented at the 7. Workshop der Sprachwissenschaftlichen Dissertationsprojekte der Wiener Germanistik and friends, Vienna, Austria, April 7-8, 2017.

Baier, D., & Ansorge, U. (2017). Studying the role of language during top-down contingent capture of attention. Poster presented at the TeaP 2017 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen/Conference of Experimental Psychologists), Dresden, Germany, March 26-29, 2017.

Goller F., Ansorge, U. & Choi, S. (2017). Does our native language determine what we pay attention to? A cross-linguistic study of gaze behaviour between Korean and German speakers. Poster presented at the TeaP 2017 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen/Conference of Experimental Psychologists), Dresden, Germany, March 26-29, 2017.

Choi, S., Ansorge, U. & Goller, F. (2017). Relative contribution of language and cognition/perception in spatial categorization. Talk presented at the ICPS 2017 (International Convention of Psychological Science), Vienna, Austria, March 23-25, 2017.

2016

Kroiss, A. (2016). How language shapes perception and cognition: A contrastive study of space and evidentiality in German and Korean. Talk presented at the Comparative Psycholinguistics Research Group Workshop, Vienna, Austria. October 2016.

Symposia

 

TeaP 2019, London

Visual attention's three guides

Symposium organised by Christina Pfeuffer and Florian Goller


Speakers:

Florian Goller (University of Vienna, Austria):
Not all onsets are created equal: ERP evidence for a top-down control over attention capture by onset cues

Lisa Valentina Eberhardt (University of Ulm, Germany):
Crowding across depth depends on relative target or flanker depth

Christoph Strauch (University of Ulm, Germany):
Pupil dilation and microsaccade rate relate inversely in decision-making

Alexandra Kroiss (University of Vienna, Austria):
The eyes have it: Event conceptualization in German and Korean speakers

Christina Pfeuffer (University of Freiburg, Germany):
Proactive effect monitoring for forced-choice and free-choice actions

Lynn Huestegge (University of Würzburg, Germany):
Action control levels in the oculomotor domain: The case of free-choice saccades

 

TeaP 2018, Marburg

Lost for words – A symposium on the relationship between language and perception

Symposium organised by Florian Goller


Speakers:

Florian Goller (University of Vienna, Austria):
I spy with my little eye: About features that capture the attention of Korean speakers but not of German speakers

Ines Marberg (University of Heidelberg, Germany):
Ping-pong: Attentional mechanisms during visual and linguistic encoding

Annelie Rothe-Wulf (University of Freiburg, Germany):
I spy with my little eye: About features that capture the attention of Korean speakers but not of German speakers

Diane Baier (University of Vienna, Austria):
Language effects in top-down search for colors

Lorilei M. Alley (University of Gießen, Germany):
Neo's spoon and Newton's apples: What material properties are part of object representations?

Anna K. Kuhlen  (Humboldt University zu Berlin, Germany):
Lexical access on behalf of task partner: Electrophysiological insights from Joint Picture Naming

 

iCLAP 2018, Vienna

International Conference on Cognition, Language and Perception

Conference organised by Soonja Choi, Ulrich Ansorge and Florian Goller


Speakers:

Lera Boroditsky (University of California, San Diego):
How Language shapes thought

Jeong- Ah Shin (Dongguk University, Seoul):
Structural priming in second language research

 

ICPS 2017, Vienna

Language, Culture and Cognition

Symposium organised by Soonja Choi, Ulrich Ansorge and Florian Goller


Speakers:

Yuri Miyamoto (University of Wisconsin):
Analytic versus Holistic Cognition: Cultural and Socio-Structural Influences

Efstathia Soroli (University of Lille Nord de France):
How language specifics affect categorization and visual processing? Evidence from English, French and Greek

Soonja Choi (University of Vienna & San Diego State University):
Relative contribution of language and cognition/perception in spatial categorization

Asifa Majid (Radboud University and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics):
What olfaction can tell us about the relationship between language and thought

Media

Radio:

Von Brabbel zu Babel - der Sprachursprung | Interview with Florian Goller | Superscience Me, Radio Orange 94.0 (06/13/2018)

Formt Sprache das Denken oder nicht? | Interview with Ulrich Ansorge | Punkt Eins, Oe1, ORF (09/01/2017)

 

Newspapers and magazines:

Koreanisch denken und Deutsch sprechen: Geht das? | Blog entry appeared on Forum+ of derStandard.at (04/29/2020)

Wie Sprache unsere Welt prägt / How language shapes our world | Blog entry by Soonja Choi | univie Blog (04/27/2020)

"Der Hund läuft mit den Würsten davon": Was Sprache mit uns macht | User article by Ulrich Ansorge | derStandard.at (04/21/2020)

Worte mit Wirkung | Dossier by APA-Science Magazin (08/02/2018)

Ich seh', ich seh', was du nicht siehst! | Interview with Soonja Choi | Die Presse (07/13/2018)

Was macht Sprache mit unserer Wahrnehmung? | Interview with Soonja Choi & Ulrich Ansorge | uni:view Magazin (08/09/2017)

 

Public presentations:

Wie beeinflusst Sprache unsere Wahrnehmung? | Research booth by Alexandra Kroiss at the Lange Nacht der Forschung (04/13/2018)