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Sibylle Mohr
Research Assistant
Working with : Dale Barr

I am currently working as Research Assistant on a research project that investigates synchrony and attentional timing in spoken language processing under the supervision of Dr. Dale Barr.

I obtained my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Simon C. Garrod at the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow. My PhD studentship was fully funded by the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences (FIMS). I graduated from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany with an MSc. in Computational Linguistics.

Research interests include the cognitive processes underlying language processing as revealed by ERPs / ERFs, and frequency-related neuronal brain oscillations using state-of-the-art electrophysiological and brain imaging techniques (EEG / MEG). Other research interests focus on reading, covert attention, and reference resolution using Eye-tracking, EEG, and MEG.

I am also organising the Language Group Seminar.
Sibylle Mohr
CONTACT INFO
Postal Address Room 555
Dept of Psychology
58 Hillhead Street
Glasgow
G12 8QB
Telephone +44 (0)141 330 6621
EMail address sibylle.mohr@glasgow.ac.uk
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Paper Kreiner H., Mohr S., Kessler K. & Garrod S. (2009) Can context affect gender processing? ERP differences between definitional and stereotypical gender In M. Horne (Ed.), Brain Talk. Lund: University of Lund PDF [expand abstract]
Abstract: Previous research using Eye-Tracking and ERP has shown that readers experience processing difficulty when an anaphor (herself ) refers to a gender-mismatching antecedent (minister). The mismatch-effect is due to a clash between the gender of the pronoun and the gender of the co-referential noun. We report two EEG experiments using anaphora (Experiment 1) and cataphora (Experiment 2) sentences, designed to investigate the processing differences between stereotypical (minister) and definitional (king) gender role nouns. Consistent with previous findings (Osterhout et al., 1997), our results reveal similar mismatching effects for these noun types in anaphora. Critically, however, in cataphora, where the pronoun precedes its co-referring noun, diverging ERP signatures are revealed. Differences in an early interval suggest fast “gender-coercing” for stereotypical nouns while effects in a later interval are likely to reflect gender mismatch processing in definitional nouns. These findings suggest that discourse constraints modulate the processing of these two noun types in different ways.