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!
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.
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.