Swetlana's Experience

At the Max-Planck-Institute in Leipzig, I was very fortunate to be able to run an fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) experiment with 30 native speakers of German.

Due to its high spatial resolution, the fMRI technique lends itself to the localization of brain areas that support particular cognitive tasks such as language processing. In this experiment, I was particularly interested in the processing of morphological complexity.

I would particularly like to thank Prof. Mathias Scharinger (University of Marburg, Germany) and Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) for their assistance in running and analyzing the results from these experiments.