Christoph Aurnhammer

About

Bio

I am a postdoctoral researcher in psycholinguistics in the special research group Information density and linguistic encoding at the Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland University, Germany. I research human language comprehension in the neural and behavioural domain using experimental and computational methods. My dissertation project was supervised by Matthew Crocker and Harm Brouwer. [CV]

Contact

aurnhammer@coli.uni-saarland.de Github Scholar

Work address: Psycholinguistics, Department of Language Science and Technology, Building C7.1, Room 1.17.

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Publications

PhD Thesis

Aurnhammer C. (2024). Expectation-based retrieval and integration in language comprehension. [DOI]

Journal Articles

Aurnhammer C., Crocker M. W., Brouwer H. (2023). Single-trial neurodynamics reveal N400 and P600 coupling in language comprehension. Cognitive Neurodynamics. [DOI]

Aurnhammer C., Delogu F., Brouwer H., Crocker M. W. (2023). The P600 as a continuous index of integration effort. Psychophysiology, e14302. [DOI]

Aurnhammer C., Delogu F., Schulz M., Brouwer H., Crocker M. W. (2021). Retrieval (N400) and integration (P600) in expectation-based comprehension. PLoS ONE, 16 (9), e0257430. [DOI]

Aurnhammer C., Frank S. L. (2019). Evaluating information-theoretic measures of word prediction in naturalistic sentence reading. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107198. [DOI]

Aurnhammer C., Cuppen I. van de Ven I., van Zaanen M. (2019). Manual annotation of unsupervised models: Close and distant reading of politics on Reddit. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 13 (3). [URL]

Conference Proceedings

Aurnhammer C., Frank S. L. (2019). Comparing gated and simple RNN architectures as models of human sentence processing. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 112-118). Austin, Texas: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

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Talks and Posters

2024

Saarland University. Expectation-Based Retrieval and Integration in Language Comprehension. Aurnhammer. Doctoral Defense.

2023

Saarland University. Unpacking ERPs with linear models - Regression-based ERP estimation (rERPs). Aurnhammer. Talk.

2022

AMLaP 2022. University of York, UK. The P600 as a Graded Index of Integration Difficulty. Aurnhammer, Delogu, Brouwer, Crocker. Talk.

SNL 2022. Philadelphia, USA. The P600 as a Graded Index of Integration Difficulty. Aurnhammer, Delogu, Brouwer, Crocker. Poster.

2021

AMLaP 2021. Université de Paris, France. Retrieval (N400) and Integration (P600) in Expectation-based Comprehension. Aurnhammer, Delogu, Brouwer, Crocker. Talk.

PiF 2021. TU Kaiserslautern, Germany (originally 2020). Does the N400, or rather the P600, index surprisal? Aurnhammer, Delogu, Brouwer, Crocker. Talk.

2019

NLP in CogSci Workshop. Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark. Studying predictive language processing with information theory and language modeling. Aurnhammer, Frank. Invited Talk

Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) 2019. Saarland University, Germany. Evaluating information-theoretic measures of word prediction in naturalistic sentence reading. Aurnhammer, Frank. Talk.

CogSci 2019. Montréal, Canada. Comparing gated and simple recurrent neural network architectures as models of human sentence processing. Aurnhammer, Frank. Talk.

2018

IMPRS Conference. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Comparing gated and simple RNN architectures as models of human sentence processing. Aurnhammer, Frank. Poster.

CLIN28. De Vereeniging, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Memory Based Modelling of Dutch Past Tense Regularity. Aurnhammer. Talk.

2017

DHBenelux. University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Bridging the Gap between Close and Distant Reading. Aurnhammer, Cuppen, van de Ven, van Zaanen. Talk.

2015

Language and Computation Day. University of Essex, United Kingdom. Repetition and variation in child-language corpora. Aurnhammer, Eisenbeiss, Poesio. Talk.