teaching

From brain areas to linguistic function

This lecture explores how the core and extended language networks of the brain are organized and what current research reveals about their function, structure, and development (Trettenbrein & Friederici, 2025). Against this general background, two …

Einführung in neurowissenschaftliche Methoden in der Gebärdensprachforschung

Die mensch­liche Sprach­fähigkeit in ihren unter­schiedlichen Facetten kann aus verschiedenen Blick­winkeln und mit einer Viel­zahl von Forschungs­methoden unter­sucht werden. In diesen Vor­trag widmen wir uns der …

Neurobiological basis of sign language

One of the major insights of modern linguistics has been that the human capacity for language is not bound to speech but may also be externalized and perceived in the visuo-spatial modality of sign language. Linguistic analysis has demonstrated that …