Dr. Imke Franzmeier

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (scientific researcher)   e-mail:  Imke.Franzmeier -at- cognition.uni-freiburg.de room: 03016

Center for Cognitive Science Institute of Computer Science and Social Research Friedrichstr. 50 D-79098 Freiburg, Germany

Research interests

• Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience
• Neurolinguistics
• Neuropsychological foundations of language understanding
• Reasoning and Decision Making
• Complex Cognition
• Applied Cognitive Psychology
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), neuroimaging (fMRI), Eyetracking

Curriculum Vitae

•  since June 2013: scientific researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in the research group of Marco Ragni
• July 2013: Dr. phil, Cognitive Science;
  Title "Neurowissenschaftliche Studien zur semantischen Verarbeitung im Satzkontex"
• Jan. 2011 - July 2013: PhD student, University of Freiburg, Centre for Cognitive Science
  (Supervised by Prof. Dr. Evelyn Ferstl)
• 2010 - 2013: graduate scholarship of the  Ev. Studienwerk e.V. Villigst
• Oct. 2009 - Dec. 2010: Doctoral researcher, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, England
• Oct. 2005 - March 2009: Bachelor of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück
  (focus: Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology)
• WS 2007/ 2008 Semester abroad and research project at the University of Sussex, England

Publications

• Franzmeier, I., Hutton, S. & Ferstl, E. (2012). The role of the temporal lobe in contextual sentence integration: A single pulse TMS study. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2011.556248.

Conferences

Talks

• Franzmeier, I., Hutton, S. & Ferstl. E.C. (2011). Introducing combined TMS and eyetracking into neurolinguistic research: An exploratory approach to semantic processing. Embodied & Situated Language processing 2011 (EPSL 2011). Bielefeld, Germany, August 2011.
• Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl. E.C. (2011). Effect of positive and negative mood on the hemispheric involvement in semantic processing. 21^st Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D). Poitier, France, July 2011.
• Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl. E.C. (2010). Using TMS to explore role of the cerebral hemispheres in contextual sentence integration. Workshop of the PsychoLinguistics in the South East (PsyLingSE). London, UK, March 2010

Poster presentations

• Franzmeier, I., Reis, J. & Ferstl, E. C. (2012). Exploring sentence understanding with TMS. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (www.neurolang.org/). San Sebastian, Spain, October 2012. 
• Franzmeier, I., Reis, J. & Ferstl, E. C. (2012). Cortical background of sentence understanding - a single pulse TMS study. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). Mannheim, Germany. April 2012.
• Franzmeier, I., Hutton, S. & Ferstl, E.C. (2011). Exploratory approach to semantic processing during reading: Introducing combined TMS and Eyetracking into neurolinguistic research. Spring meeting of the British Neuropsychological Society (BNS). London, UK, March 2011.
• Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl, E.C. (2010). Prozesse der kontextuellen Satzintegration in der linken und rechten Hemisphäre? Eine TMS Studie. 10. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Aphasieforschung und -behandlung (GAB). Münster, Germany, November 2010.

• Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl, E.C. (2010). Investigations in contextual sentence integration and the role of the cerebral hemispheres - A single pulse TMS study. Annual Meeting of the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN). Bristol, UK, September 2010.

Academic activities

• Workshop "TMS & Language", Freiburg, October 2012, (Organisation and research presentation).

• Sachmittelstipendium für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen der Herman Paul School of Language Sciences (2011).

• Postgraduate Travel Bursary of the British Neuropsychological Society, Spring 2011.

• Member of the  Hermann Paul School of Language Sciences     
• Member of the Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft
• Highly commended poster prize 2010. Awarded by the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience: Franzmeier, I. & Ferstl. E.C. (2010). Investigations in contextual sentence integration and the role of the cerebral hemispheres - A single pulse TMS study. September 2010.
• ERASMUS-Scholarship (Praktikumsstipendium des EU-Bildungsprogramms LLP für Forschungsaufenthalte im europäischen Ausland, 2008)

Teaching

• Summer term 2012  -  Neurolinguistische Aspekte der Mehrsprachigkeit (Neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism)
• Winter term 2011/12 -  Einführung in die kognitive Neurowissenschaft (Introduction to cognitive neuroscience)