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Matthias Schlesewsky is affiliated with the University of South Australia in Australia and has a research focus that spans multiple interrelated fields. Their primary areas of study include Neuroscience and Psychology, with a particular emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience. The scope of their work also extends into Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Language and Linguistics.

The scientist's research topics are diverse yet interconnected, covering aspects of neural dynamics, brain function, and neurobiology related to language and bilingualism. Additional topics in their oeuvre involve neural and behavioral psychology studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity, reading and literacy development, and the cognitive processes associated with language and metaphor.

Matthias Schlesewsky has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with numerous recent publications in peer-reviewed journals. Key recent papers include:

  • Oscillatory and Aperiodic Neural Activity Jointly Predict Language Learning (2022), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Resting-state aperiodic neural dynamics predict individual differences in visuomotor performance and learning (2021), Human Movement Science
  • Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence (2022), Discourse Processes
  • EEG and behavioral correlates of attentional processing while walking and navigating naturalistic environments (2021), Scientific Reports
  • Rapid adaptation of predictive models during language comprehension: Aperiodic EEG slope, individual alpha frequency and idea density modulate individual differences in real-time model updating (2022), Frontiers in Psychology

Their scholarly output is frequently published in notable venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where they have at least 14 publications, as well as the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, Discourse Processes, and Human Movement Science.

Throughout their career, Matthias Schlesewsky has collaborated often with a core group of co-authors, including Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Zachariah R. Cross, Maarten A. Immink, Alex Chatburn, and Andrew W. Corcoran. These collaborations reflect an ongoing engagement with interdisciplinary teams working at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics.

Best Publications

  • The Extended Argument Dependency Model: A Neurocognitive Approach to Sentence Comprehension across Languages.

    Ina Bornkessel;Matthias Schlesewsky

  • Two routes to actorhood: lexicalized potency to act and identification of the actor role

    Sabine Frenzel;Matthias Schlesewsky;Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

  • An alternative perspective on "semantic P600" effects in language comprehension.

    Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Matthias Schlesewsky

  • Separating syntactic memory costs and syntactic integration costs during parsing: the processing of German WH-questions

    Christian J. Fiebach;Matthias Schlesewsky;Angela D. Friederici

  • Who did what to whom? The neural basis of argument hierarchies during language comprehension.

    Ina Bornkessel;Stefan Zysset;Angela D. Friederici;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Revisiting the role of Broca's area in sentence processing: Syntactic integration versus syntactic working memory

    Christian J. Fiebach;M. Schlesewsky;G. Lohmann;D. Y. von Cramon

  • Processing Linguistic Complexity and Grammaticality in the Left Frontal Cortex

    Angela D. Friederici;Christian J. Fiebach;Matthias Schlesewsky;Ina D. Bornkessel

  • Syntactic working memory and the establishment of filler-gap dependencies: insights from ERPs and fMRI.

    Christian J. Fiebach;Matthias Schlesewsky;Angela D. Friederici

  • The role of prominence information in the real time comprehension of transitive constructions: A cross-linguistic approach

    Ina D. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Matthias Schlesewsky

  • Reconciling time, space and function: A new dorsal–ventral stream model of sentence comprehension

    Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Matthias Schlesewsky

  • The N400 reflects problems of thematic hierarchizing

    Stefan Frisch;Matthias Schlesewsky

  • Neurobiological roots of language in primate audition: common computational properties.

    Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Matthias Schlesewsky;Steven L. Small;Josef P. Rauschecker

  • Subjective Impressions Do Not Mirror Online Reading Effort: Concurrent EEG-Eyetracking Evidence from the Reading of Books and Digital Media

    Franziska Kretzschmar;Dominique Pleimling;Jana Hosemann;Stephan Füssel

  • To Predict or Not to Predict: Influences of Task and Strategy on the Processing of Semantic Relations

    Dietmar Roehm;Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Frank Rösler;Matthias Schlesewsky

  • The Subject Preference in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous WH-Questions in German

    Matthias Schlesewsky;Gisbert Fanselow;Reinhold Kliegl;Josef Krems

  • The P600-as-P3 hypothesis revisited: single-trial analyses reveal that the late EEG positivity following linguistically deviant material is reaction time aligned.

    Jona Sassenhagen;Jona Sassenhagen;Matthias Schlesewsky;Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

  • The P600 as an indicator of syntactic ambiguity

    Stefan Frisch;Matthias Schlesewsky;Douglas Saddy;Annegret Alpermann

  • Processing Syntax and Morphology: A Neurocognitive Perspective

    Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Matthias Schlesewsky

  • Multi-dimensional contributions to garden path strength: Dissociating phrase structure from case marking

    Ina Bornkessel;Brian McElree;Matthias Schlesewsky;Angela D. Friederici

  • Think globally: cross-linguistic variation in electrophysiological activity during sentence comprehension.

    Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Franziska Kretzschmar;Franziska Kretzschmar;Sarah Tune;Luming Wang

  • On the universality of language comprehension strategies: evidence from Turkish.

    Şükrü Barış Demiral;Matthias Schlesewsky;Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky University of South Australia
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Christian J. Fiebach
Christian J. Fiebach Goethe University Frankfurt
M. Gareth Gaskell
M. Gareth Gaskell University of York
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Brian McElree
Brian McElree New York University
Josef F. Krems
Josef F. Krems Chemnitz University of Technology
Anthony J. Sanford
Anthony J. Sanford University of Glasgow
Tom Verguts
Tom Verguts Ghent University
Hans-Christoph Nuerk
Hans-Christoph Nuerk University of Tübingen

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