Dr. Marije van Amelsvoort
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=868434"
This study aims at i
nvestigating different conditions in which learning or information processing takes place. In several projects we investigate the design of visualizations to gain knowledge on (1) how visualizations are produced and processed by learners, (2) which perceptual featuresof visualizations improve learning, and (3) how visualization strategies are taught to learners most effectively.
multipleResearchers
Prof. dr.E Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Prof. dr.Alfons Maes
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=498378?uid=498378
Dr. M. Postma
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=720333?uid=720333
Dr. Marjolijn Antheunis
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=380958?uid=380958"
In this project, we examine both social and strategic effects of the use of several internet applications (e.g., social network sites, and online games). On the one hand, it examines social effects of the internet on social psychological well being and impression formation. For example, what are the long-term effects of social network site use on loneliness and quality of friendships? Enhance social network site and online games the users' social competence? On the other hand, we examine the strategic effects of social media marketing on several effectivity measures, such as attitude towards the brand and buying intentions. More specifically, this project aims to test how marketing campaigns on social network sites affects consumers' brand engagement, loyalty, and other marketing effects.
Dr. Anja Arts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&anr=599964?anr=599964
Overspecification of referential expressions has been shown to be an ever-present characteristic in language production. Natural language production can be disturbed by various factors, as is the case with many other cognitive and physical processes in humans. In this project the focus is on stress as a factor that may influence the degree of overspecification in language production, because purposely induced stress, as experienced by participants in an experiment, may have an effect on the perception processes, and with that on the planning processes that precede the natural flow of language.
Martijn Balsters, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=368849?uid=368849
In this PhD project, our goal is to examine whether certain verbal and nonverbal cues could be reliable predictors for depression in adolescents, in orderto make diagnoses inlife as early aspossible. We uselinguistic, acoustic andnonverbal behavioralmethods of analysis. In addition, we aim to investigate more general attentional effects of negative emotion perception (such as fear, sadness and the influence of tears) on the basis of behavioral experiments.
PhD
Prof. dr. M. Swerts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=790234?uid=790234
Prof. dr. E. Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Prof. dr. A. Vingerhoets
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/webwijs/show/&uid=vingerhoets?uid=vingerhoets
Dr. Reinier Cozijn
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=797847?uid=797847
This project is concerned with experimental research on information processing in a multimodal environment, with a focus on processes related to language comprehension, hypertext comprehension, and the integration of text and graphics. The project uses eye tracking as its main research methodology.
Dr. Martijn Goudbeek
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=671693?uid=671693
The aim of this sub project is to examine the processes underlying emotional expression and perception and its role in communication. How do we perceive (vocally expressed) emotion, are we able to adjust to individual differences, what are the dynamics of emotional expression and perception (i.e., how quick are we to recognize an emotion). In addit
ion, this project investigates the consequences of producing or perceiving an emotionally colored utterance for several communicative situations (e.g., how are negation strategies affected by emotional expressions?).
Dr. Erica Huls
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=679488?uid=679488
This project studies institutional discourse with a specific interest in the power processes that take place in conversations. More specifically, it focuses on interviewers' use of verbal means of power and interviewees' evasions. Among the settings studied are media interviews and police
interrogations. In data analysis, insights from Conversation Analysis and Discourse analysis are used.
Constantijn Kaland, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=140396?uid=140396
In the field of (cognitive) linguistics, there is a renewed interest in the question to what extent the form of linguistic expressions is a consequence of speaker-dependent or addressee-dependent factors. Basically, the underlying problem is whether speakers mainly "speak for themselves", or whether they adapt their expressions to the needs and background of their addressees. To tackle this general problem, previous research has often looked at how speakers make lexical decisions. Instead, the current project aims to focus on prosodic variables, like intonation, loudness, and durational patterns.
PhD
Prof. dr. M. Swerts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=790234?uid=790234
Prof. dr. E. Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Naomi Kamoen, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?anr=739492&lan=en
The survey is generally regarded to be the "least cumbersome method" to acquire insight into people's opinions and attitudes (Dijkstra & Van der Zouwen 1982: 2). However, all sorts of seemingly irrelevant characteristics of the question wording and the survey context influence how respondents report their attitudes (e.g. Tourangeau, Rips & Rasinski 2000). This project attempts to explain these so-called wording effects by relating them to the cognitive processes underlying question answering.
Prof. dr. Emiel Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Real-life scenes contain many different objects, each of which can be referred to in many different ways. When speakers want to point out one of these objects to an addressee, they usually have no problems in quickly producing a referring expression singling out the intended object ("Do you see the man in blue clothes over there?"). How do speakers do this? More precisely, how do they go from the intention to point out an object to an addressee to the realization of this intention through spoken language, supported with appropriate gestures and facial expressions? This project studies the human production of referring expressions from both a computational and an experimental perspective, combining methodologies and insights from psycholinguistics with those of computational linguistics.
multipleResearchers
Dr. M. Goudbeek
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=671693?uid=671693
Prof. dr. M. Swerts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=790234?uid=790234
Dr. A. Gatt, Postdoc
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=a.gatt
M. Hoetjes, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=838806?uid=838806
R. Koolen, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=209892?uid=209892
Dr. J. Viethen
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?anr=618679&lan=en
Prof. dr. Alfons Maes
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=498378?uid=498378
The studies in this project use experimental methods (elicitation of speech, production tasks, think aloud, online measurements, qualitative analysis) to better understand the role of visual elements in human communication. The studies are aimed at understanding how visual cues interact with language (gesture-speech; visual-linguistic salience), how visual strategies are used to create metaphoric conceptualization (e.g. in advertising, cartoons, health communication), how graphical and spatial elements are produced (e.g. in argumentative diagrams) or interpreted (e.g. the use of arrows). Different colleague researchers cooperate in the studies.
Dr. Harold Miesen
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=749796?uid=749796
Taken as a whole, the past 20 years of research on materialism and life satisfaction have produced mixed and inconsistent evidence to support the widely held consumer culture notion that material possessions are a salient feature in attaining life satisfaction. The current project aims at providing from a human motivational perspective a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics behind a selection of relevant social-psychological need-variables, different types of resources at the individual'sdisposal, materialism, and life satisfaction.
Dr. Lisette Mol
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=261525?uid=261525
What cognitive processes influence hand gesture production and what does this tell us about how and why gestures are produced? Using an experimental approach, I test how a speaker's mental image of the addressee, computermediation, the difficulty of a (secondary) task, and low level priming (alignment) affect gesture production.
multipleResearchers
Prof. dr. E. Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Prof. dr.Alfons Maes
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=498378?uid=498378
Prof. dr. M. Swerts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=790234?uid=790234
Phoebe Mui, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=h.c.mui
This project focuses on nonverbal displays of emotions from a cross-cultural perspective. How, and why, are members of different cultural groups alike or different in expressing emotions nonverbally? In this project, we seek to delineate thespecific emotionsand contexts in which cultural (dis)similarities are present.
PhD
Prof. dr. M. Swerts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=790234?uid=790234
Dr. Maria Mos
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=maria.mos
My research focuses on linguistic mental representations, more specifically on frequency-driven and context-defined representations. To what extent do we know, either explicitly or implicitly, in what contexts (sentences, but also different text types) words and phrases typically occur? Do we make use of this knowledge when we process language? Is it easier to read and understand a word, an expression or a text when it is placed in its normal, typical context? And what does this tell us about the ways in which our knowledge of language is organized?
Dr. Monique Pollman
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/webwijs/show/?uid=m.m.h.pollmann
People need self-control in many areas of their lives as it enables them to attain long term goals, such as a healthy lifestyle, by resisting the temptation of short term benefits such as a large piece of chocolate cake. Self-control also serves interpersonal functions as it predicts relationship success and enables impression formation. This project investigates the role of self-control in negotiations to see how and why self-control influences negotiation success.
Dr. Marie Postma
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=720333?uid=720333
As shown in a number of psychoacoustic and neurological studies, human listeners differ in what aspects of a complex sound signal they perceive to be dominant. In particular, they can be roughly divided between F0 listeners, who focus onthe information encoded in the fundamental frequency and its change in time, andspectral listeners, who are primarily affected by the overall spectral information in the signal, such as its timbre. Given that discriminating the individual components of the sound signal is the core skill behind human speech processing, it is of importance that we gain insight into individual differences in speech perception and their possible impact on interpretation, as well as on production and language learning.
multipleResearchers
Dr. M. Goudbeek
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=671693?uid=671693
Karin van Nispen, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=k.vannispen
Gesturing can convey meaning in co-occurrence as well as in absence of speech. Therefore, the use of gestures would seem to be a good strategy for people with aphasia to compensate for their impaired speech production.
Our study analyzes the ability to gesture in aphasic patients. We focus on different linguistic disorders, the type of gestures that are used and the comprehensibility of these gestures.
PhD
Prof. dr. E. Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Dr. M. v.d. Sandt-Koenderman
http://www.rijndam.nl
L. Mol, MSc
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=l.mol
Dr. Leonoor Oversteegen
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=707155?uid=707155
This project focuses on the way the linguistic form of a certain message (be it an expression or a text) varies as a function of properties of the sender and/or receiver of the message, such as gender, (mutual) knowledge and convictions. The form variations investigated include semantic precision, explicitness (of inferrable relations), prosodic features and metaphorical images employed.
Prof. dr. Jan Renkema
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=324094?uid=324094
This project focuses on the digital application and improvement of a model for discussing discourse quality; the CCC-model (Renkema, 2000). In particular, this project aims to implement the results of research projects for the Dutch Internal Revenue Service and the Dutch municipalities The Hagueand Almere. The project also aims to improve the quality of obtaining language advice on the internet, as well as the usability.
Dr. Juliette Schaafsma
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=130370?uid=130370
The aim of this project is to examine how people respond to threats to their inclusionary status (i.e., being ignored, excluded, or rejected), and to examine howsuch responses vary as a function of situational characteristics (e.g., group status).Thisresearch also aims togain more insight into the types of interventions that might make people less vulnerable to different types of inclusionary threats.
Dr.Joost Schilperoord
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=149896?uid=149896
Visual imagery is assumed to be capable of bringing about conceptual effects, such as analogy, causality, negation, that have long seen the exclusive domain of language. This project aims at exploring the potential of visual imagery to evoke points of view and special types of causality like argumentation. Adapting the theory of Conceptual Blending, the project's guiding hypothesis is that the nature of the blending process (simplex blending, mirror blending, single or double scope blending), i.e. the type of metaphorical domains that are selected and the way they are expressed and merged visually, ultimately determines whether an image merely qualifies its topic, whether it expresses a certain point of view with regard to it, or whether it even invites viewers to reconstruct a full blown argumentation.
Dr. Alexander Schouten
http://www.alexanderschouten.nl/
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Suleman Shahid MSc, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&anr=826387&lan=nl?anr=826387&lan=nl
This project investigates how different emotional and affective states of humans effect (positively or negatively) their interaction with a computer/digital media. The research focuses on two dimensions of emotions across cultures: natural emotion induction and emotion recognition. Forinducing emotions naturally, new techniques are developed e.g. using simple games or changing the rules of complex games for this purpose. For perceiving emotions, the main focus of this research will be on the non-verbal cues derived from facial expressions and body gestures.
PhD
Prof. dr. E. Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Prof. dr. M. Swerts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=790234?uid=790234
Prof. dr. Marc Swerts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=790234?uid=790234
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This project focuses on how speakers and addressees use auditory and visual forms of nonverbal communication (audiovisual prosody). In particular, the project aims to test how the use of audiovisual prosody develops in growing children, and to what extent it is being exploited by people with communicative problems, such as people with autism.
Dr. Kiek Tates
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=725501?uid=725501
This project uses primarily qualitative research methodology to explore the processes of information exchange, shared decision-making and patient participation in various medical contexts. A special research focus is on the conflicting demands of adequate information exchange during diagnostic consultations in pediatric oncology, and the demands of obtaining valid informed consent for participation in clinical trials.
Dr. Anne Vermeer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=410357?uid=410357
In a longitudinal design, the project describes the quantitative and qualitative development of Dutch vocabulary in monolingual native Dutch and bilingual ethnic minority children from their fourth to ninth year. The main focus is development in growth (`breadth') and the relation with morphological complex units and pre-packaged constructions, with cognitive abilities, and with textual abilities with respect to cohesion and coherence.
Mandy Visser, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=743007?uid=743007
My project aims to get a better understanding of how children learn to use and interpret nonverbal behavior, during their social development. As children grow older, their social awareness increases and they learn what type of nonverbal behavior is appropriate and affective in specific social contexts. My studies examine different aspects of the social use of nonverbal behavior, like showing uncertainty.
PhD
Prof. dr. M. Swerts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=790234?uid=790234
Prof. dr. E. Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Jorrig Vogels, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=451014?uid=451014
The production of referring expressionsis affected by cognitive constraints on the
part of the speaker. This project investigates the influence of factors intrinsic to the speaker's cognitive state and how these interact with factors dependenton the communicative situation. More specifically, it looks at the effects of different properties of referents on the production of referring expressions,such as animacy, givenness and visual salience. We distinguish factors that contribute to inherent accessibility from those that contribute to derived accessibility, as well as linguistic properties from physical properties, and examine whether such effects result from the speaker's mental model independent from the needs of the adressee, or whether they can (partly) be ascribed to efforts from the speaker to adapt to the supposed mental model of the addressee and to increase the chances ofsuccessful communication.
PhD
Prof. dr. E. Krahmer
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=588822?uid=588822
Prof. dr. A. Maes
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=498378?uid=498378
Lisanne van Weelden, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=835688?uid=835688
This project of the 'Visual Metaphor; A psycholinguistic Perspective' addresses how metaphor type affects the comprehension and understanding of visual metaphors. The project seeks to find out if and when attribute mapping takes placeduring processing visual metaphors and how it affects relation mapping.
PhD
Prof. dr. Alfons Maes
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=498378?uid=498378
Dr. J. Schilperoord
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=149896?uid=149896
Dr. R. Cozijn
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=797847?uid=797847
Hans Westerbeek, PhD student
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=h.g.w.westerbeek
Pictures can be used to communicate messages. While linguistic and psychological research has yielded considerable insight in the interpretation of text, communication through pictures has not attracted the same degree of scholarly attention. This project aims to conduct an experimental approach towards the communicative impact of pictures, focusing on stylistic differences in depiction (e.g. detailed vs. coarse pictures), and especially on pictorial realism.
PhD
Prof. dr. Alfons Maes
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=498378?uid=498378
Dr. Carel van Wijk
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=473847?uid=473847
For genres ranging from news reports to public information and advertisements, stylistic choices are evaluated for their effects on the persuasiveness of adocument. Theseeffects arestudied in relation with one or more characteristics of receiver (involvement), content (relevance), source (reputation), situation (depth of processing) and context (medium).
multipleResearchers
Dr. A. Arts
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&anr=599964?anr=599964
Dr. Per van der Wijst
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/&uid=431796?uid=431796
This project studies theeffect of communicative and social variables on the process of decision taking in negotiations.Moreprecisely, in a series of negotiation experiments the question is addressed whether a relation of friendship helps or hinders a negotiation and to what extent friendship protects against inappropriate negotiation strategies, such as deceiving and retaliation.
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