Lehrveranstaltungen im Winter 2024/2025
Vorlesung (BA): Einführung in die Psycholinguistik | moodle
Seminar (MA): Audience Design | moodle
Seminar (MA): The History of Cognitive Science | moodle
Kolloquium (MA): Master-Kolloquium GiK Sprachwissenschaft | moodle
Vorlesung (diverse Dozenten): Cognitive Science - Heidelberg University Lecture Series | moodle
Certificate of advanced studies "Cognitive Science"
Das Certificate of advanced studies (CAS) "Cognitive Science" ist eine interdisziplinäre, forschungsorientierte Zusatzqualifikation für Masterstudierende und Doktorand:innen, die eine individuelle Profilbildung fördert. Im Fokus des Erkenntnisinteresses steht die menschliche Kognition, allerdings in der Überzeugung, dass eine gegenseitige Befruchtung durch den Brückenschlag zu computationalen Ansätzen und zur künstlichen Intelligenz möglich ist.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Sprachproduktion und -rezeption
- Spracherwerb
- Event cognition
- Interface zwischen visueller Wahrnehmung und sprachlicher Verarbeitung
- Methodenentwicklung
Master-Arbeiten, die ich zurzeit betreue
- Eine Embodiment-Perspektive auf Zeitrepräsentation - Sun, Yichen
- Phonologische Einheiten bei der Worterkennung gesprochener Sprache im Mandarin-Chinesischen und Deutschen - Fu, Qian
- Soziosemantik deutscher Nomen - Emde, Lea
- Morphologische Verarbeitung bei Lernern des Deutschen - Sabio, Andrea
- Kognitive Hürden? Akzent und Negation: Wie Verarbeitungsschwierigkeiten Wahrheitsbeurteilungsprozesse prägen - Langner, Julia
- Verb imageability - Gorman, Matthew
- The Influence of Auditory and Visual Stimuli on the Imageability of Chinese Verbs and Its Correlation with Emotional Intensity - Tang, Yuzhe (LMU München)
- Internet-Memes als Image-Macro. Eine Untersuchung der Prozessierung von Internet-Memes durch L1- und L2-Sprecher des Deutschen - Wei, Bukun
Abgeschlossene Master-Projekte
Wichtige Hinweise: Leitfaden zur Abfassung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, TU Dresden, Maria Lieber
Bachelor-Arbeiten, die ich zurzeit betreue
- The Levenshteins: Non-binäre Fehlermaße für den Orthografieerwerb des Deutschen - Arnold, Nicolas
- The role of Word Class in Word recognition – the hebrew mental lexicon - H.,G.
Abgeschlossene Bachelor-Projekte
Wichtige Hinweise: Leitfaden zur Abfassung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, TU Dresden, Maria Lieber
Literaturhinweis

Dietrich, Rainer & Gerwien, Johannes (2017). Psycholinguistik - Eine Einführung. J.B. Metzler, Auflage: 3. Als E-Book in der UB
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Liang, M., Gerwien, J., Gutschalk, A. (2025). A listening advantage for native speech is reflected by attention-related activity in auditory cortex. Communications Biology 8, 180 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07601-2
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Gerwien, J., Schlenter, J., Penke, M., & Konopka, A.E.(2024). Effects of perceptual and conceptual cueing in sentence production: A cross-linguistic comparison between English and Russian. Discourse Processes, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2024.2433896
Tutorials
Experimente-Design mit jspsych
Statistik mit R / R Studio
Experiment-Design mit OpenSesame
Publikationen
Bücher
(Ko-)Autorenschaft
Dietrich, Rainer & Gerwien, Johannes (2017). Psycholinguistik - Eine Einführung. J.B. Metzler, Auflage: 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05494-4
Gerwien, J. (2016). Repräsentation und Enkodierung von Ereignissen (Doctoral dissertation). archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Herausgeberschaft
Gerwien, J., Marberg, I. und Nicolaisen, K. (Hrsg.): Die kognitive Perspektive: Wie Menschen über die Welt sprechen. Festschrift zu Ehren von Christiane von Stutterheim, Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1292
Artikel
in preparation/submitted/in press
Tao, L. & Gerwien, J. (submitted). Evidence for Syntactic Audience Design from the Production of Active and Passive Relative Clauses in Chinese.
Nicolaisen, K., Konopka, A.E., Stutterheim, C. v. & Gerwien, J. (under revision) Transfer in progress: What grammatical aspect can tell us about the mapping of syntactic structure and event structure.
Gerwien, J. (accepted). Wie wahrscheinlich ist das, was kommt und ist das wirklich relevant? Sprachverstehen in Echtzeit aus der Perspektive des Predictive Coding Frameworks.
Marberg, I., Dirker, D. & Gerwien, J. (submitted). A comparison of objective and subjective locus of attention as a window into gist generation.
2025
Liang, M., Gerwien, J., Gutschalk, A. (2025). A listening advantage for native speech is reflected by attention-related activity in auditory cortex. Communications Biology 8, 180 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07601-2
2024
Gerwien, J., Schlenter, J., Penke, M., & Konopka, A.E.(2024). Effects of perceptual and conceptual cueing in sentence production: A cross-linguistic comparison between English and Russian. Discourse Processes, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2024.2433896
Pishghadam, R., Boustani, N., Gerwien, J., Shayesteh, S., & Al Abdwani, T. (2024). Audio-visual entrainment, cranio-electro stimulation, and sensory involvement: Rival effects on attention and L2 vocabulary retention. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716424000419
Gerwien, J., Marberg, I. & Nicolaisen, K. (2024). What are events? In: Gerwien, J., Marberg, I. & Nicolaisen, K. (Eds). Die kognitive Perspektive. Wie Menschen über die Welt sprechen. Festschrift zu Ehren von Christiane von Stutterheim, Heidelberg University Publishing, 225–255. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1292.c20255
2023
Gerwien, J., Filip, M., & Smolík, F. (2023). Noun imageability and the processing of sensory-based information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(ja). https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231216304
Stutterheim, C. v. & Gerwien, J. (2023). Die Bedeutung sprachspezifischer Ereignisschemata für die Argumentstruktur. Ein Vergleich zwischen dem Ausdruck von Bewegungsereignissen im Deutschen und im Französischen. In: Hartmann, J. & Wöllstein, A. (Eds). Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich | Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research. Theorie und Empirie | Theoretical and Empirical Issues (Studien zur deutschen Sprache 84). Narr Francke Attempto.
2022
Gerwien, J. & Stutterheim, C. v. & Rummel, J. (2022). What is the interference in "verbal interference"?. Acta Psychologica (230). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103774
Gerwien, J. & Stutterheim, C. v. (2022). Describing motion events. In: Jucker, A.H. & Hausendorf, H. (ed.) Handbook of Pragmatics (HOPS) 14: The Pragmatics of Space. De Gruyter Mouton, p.152-180. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693713-006
Gerwien, J. & Stutterheim, C. v. (2022). Conceptual blending across ontological domains - References to Time and Space in motion events by Tunisian Arabic speakers of L2 German. Frontiers in Communication: Language Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.856805
Lambert, M., Stutterheim, C. v., Carroll, M. & Gerwien, J. & (2022). Under the surface: A survey on principles of language use in advanced L2 speakers. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 13. https://doi.org/10.1075/lia.21014.lam
Tao, L. & Gerwien, J. (2022). Eine empirische Untersuchung zu semantischen Interferenz-Effekten bei der Produktion von chinesischen Relativsätzen. In: Zhang, Y & Szurawitzki (ed.): Sprache, Technik und Kultur. Akten des internationalen Studierenden-Symposiums am Beijing Institute of Technology, June 2021. Germanistische Linguistik Volume 3. Königshausen & Neumann.
2021
Kokje, E., Gerwien, J. & Stutterheim, C. v. (2021). The Construal of Macro-Events in Healthy Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Journal of Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12271
Fan, J. & Gerwien, J. (2021). Gibt es die DO/PO-Alternation im Mandarin Chinesischen?. Heidelberg University Papers on Language and Cognition 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.11588/huplc.2021.2.84636
Stutterheim, C. v., Lambert, M., & Gerwien, J. (2021). Limitations on the role of frequency in L2 acquisition. Language and Cognition, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2021.5
2020
Stutterheim, C. v., Gerwien, J., Bouhaous, A., Carroll, M. & Lambert, M. (2020). What makes up a reportable event in a language? Motion events as an important test domain in linguistic typology, Linguisics 58(6), 1659-1700. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0212
Klages, H. & Gerwien, J. (2020). Referential coherence: Children’s understanding of pronoun anaphora. Insights from mono- and bilingual language acquisition. In: Gagarina, N. & Musan, R. (Eds.) Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children (SOLA53). De Gruyter. (pp.105-138). https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501510151-006
2019
Gerwien, J. (2019). The interpretation and prediction of event participants in Mandarin verb-final active and passive sentences. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-019-00049-x
Gerwien, J. & Rudka, M. (2019). Expectation changes over time: How long it takes to process focus imposed by German sogar. In Ó. Loureda et al. (Eds.), Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (305). John Benjamins Publishing. (pp. 229–251) https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.305.08ger
2018
Gerwien, J. & v. Stutterheim, C. (2018). Event segmentation: Cross-linguistic differences in verbal and non-verbal tasks. Cognition 180, 225-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.07.008
Klages, H. & Gerwien, J. (2018). Die Interpretation anaphorischer Pronomina bei Kindern im L1- und frühen L2-Erwerb. In: Schimke, Sarah & Hopp, Holger (Hrsg.). Sprachverarbeitung in der Zweitsprache. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110456356-011
2017
Gewien, J. (2017). Warum klingen vertraute Wörter fremd, wenn man sie oft wiederholt? Gehirn & Geist (Ausgabe August 2017). article.
Gerwien, J. & Herweg, M. (2017). Aspectual Class (Under-)Specification in the Generation of Motion Event Representations – A Project Outline. Heidelberg University Papers on Language and Cognition (1). https://doi.org/10.11588/huplc.2017.0.37820
2016
Gerwien, J. & Flecken, M. (2016). First things first? Top-down influences on event apprehension. In: Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. abstract and article.
2015
Gerwien, J. & Flecken, M. (2015). There is no prime for time: The missing link between form and concept of progressive aspect in L2 production. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Vol. 18, Iss. 5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2015.1027144
2014
Klages, H. & Gerwien, J. (2014). Verstehen anaphorischer Personalpronomina im DaZ- und DaM-Erwerb. In: Pagonis, G. & Klages, H. (Eds.), Linguistisch fundierte Sprachförderung und Sprachdidaktik - Grundlagen, Konzepte, Desiderate. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110355109.71
Flecken, M., Gerwien, J., Carroll, M. & v. Stutterheim, C. (2014). Analyzing gaze allocation during language production: a cross-linguistic study on dynamic events. Language and Cognition, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2014.20 - [researchgate]
2013
von Stutterheim, C. & Gerwien, J. (2013). Die Macht der Worte. Sprache steuert den Blick. Ruperto Carola (3). article
Flecken, M. & Gerwien, J. (2013). Grammatical aspect modulates event duration estimations: findings from Dutch. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society pp. 2309‐2314. Austin, TX:Cognitive Science Society. [researchgate]
2011
Gerwien, J. (2011). A psycholinguistic approach to AT-structure analysis. In: Sprachliche Variationen, Varietäten und Kontexte. Festschrift für Rainer Dietrich, Katharina Spalek, Juliane Domke (ed), Stauffenburg Festschriften.
Ausgewählte Vorträge und Poster
Tao, L. & Gerwien, J. (2023). Grammatical encoding for communicative efficiency - evidence from the production of ORC and passive SRC in Chinese. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia, December 1-3, 2023, Hong Kong. (poster presentation). abstract
Gerwien, J., Schlenter, J., Penke, M. & Konopka, A. (2022). Does information availability affect order of mention and structure choice? Poster presentation at the 28th AMLaP conference, York, United Kingsom, September 7.-8. 2022 abstract / poster (mini talk)
Filip, Maros, Gerwien, Johannes & Smolik, Filip (2022). Noun imageability and different sensory modalities. Poster presentation at the 28th AMLaP conference, York, United Kingsom, September 7.-8. 2022
Ji, L. & Gerwien, J. (2022). A comparison of relative clause production between Chinese and German children. Poster presentation at the 28th AMLaP conference, York, United Kingsom, September 7.-8. 2022. abstract / poster (mini talk)
Marberg, Ines, Dirker, Danny & Gerwien, Johannes (2022). A comparison of objective and subjective locus of attention as a window into gist generation. Oral presentation at TeaP, Cologne, Germany, March 20-23. 2022.
Fan, Jing & Gerwien, Johannes (2022). Evidence for a DO processing advantage in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presentation at 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Santa Cruz, USA. abstract / poster (mini talk)
Filip, Maros, Gerwien, Johannes & Smolik, Filip (2021). Noun imageability and sensory-based decisions. Oral presentation at the 27th AMLaP conference, Paris, France, September 2.-4. 2021. abstract
Gerwien, Johannes & Stutterheim, Christiane von (2021). A filled phonological buffer does not block conceptual preparation for verbal encoding: evidence from a reaction time paradigm. Oral presentation at the 27th AMLaP conference, Paris, France, September 2.-4. 2021. abstract
Tao, Lan, Gerwien, Johannes, & Pappert, Sandra. (2021). Priming of information structure mapping in Mandarin Chinese. Oral presentation at the Psycholinguistics in Flander conference at TU Kaiserslautern, February 20.-21. 2021.
Kehl, Philip & Gerwien, Johannes. (2021). Subject-verb-agreement in complex, number ambiguous noun phrases. Oral presentation at the Psycholinguistics in Flander conference at TU Kaiserslautern, February 20.-21. 2021. abstract / presentation on OSF
Wu, Xiaogang & Gerwien, Johannes (2021). Linear vs. structural incrementality in the face of sentence production in context. Oral presentation at the 43rd Annual meeting of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, February 23.-26. 2021. abstract
Ji, Lili & Gerwien, Johannes. (2020). Learning to produce relative clauses in Mandarin L1 acquisition – The role of animacy configuration patterns. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, MA., USA, March 19th–March 21st, 2020. (poster presentation). poster / abstract / video presentation on OSF
Gerwien, Johannes, Wang, Yuxia, & Wu, Fuyun (2019). Predictive processing is affected by linguistic complexity of cue-preceding input. Poster presentation at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO., USA, March 29th–March 31st, 2019. abstract / poster on OSF
Wu, Xiaogang & Gerwien, Johannes (2018). Syntactic encoding in the face of context. Poster presentation at the 10th International Workshop on Language Production, July 2nd-4th, 2018, at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Flecken, M. & Gerwien, J. (2018). It's time to prime time! - priming the encoding of viewpoint aspect. Poster presentation at the 10th International Workshop on Language Production, July 2nd-4th, 2018, at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Oleksandra Gubina & Johannes Gerwien (2018). Gender representation and processing in Russian-German bilinguals, oral presentation at the 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in adults and children, May 24th-26th, Braunschweig, Germany.
Ines Marberg & Johannes Gerwien (2018). "Ping-pong: attentional mechanisms during visual and linguistic encoding". Oral presentation at "Lost for words - A symposium on the relationship between language and perception", 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, March 11th-14th, 2018, Marberg, Germany.
Xiaogang Wu & Johannes Gerwien (2018). A priority list of factors for syntactic encoding (in German), poster presentation at the 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA., USA, March 15th–March 17th, 2018. (poster presentation) abstract and poster
Oleksandra Gubina & Johannes Gerwien (2017). Gender representation and processing in Russian-German bilinguals, poster presentation at the 23rd AMLaP conference, Lancaster, UK. (poster presentation)
Ines Marberg & Johannes Gerwien (2017) 'On the road to ... somewhere?' - Change blindness in event description tasks is informative about the interrelation between visual perception and language planning, poster presentation at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK. (poster presentation)
Gerwien, Johannes (2017). Predicting referents based on structural meaning – The case of the Mandarin Chinese bǎ-construction. Linguistic Diversity Meets The Brain: Future directions in the language sciences. Workshop at the Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich on 15th–17th May 2017. (oral presentation)
Muqing Li, Johannes Gerwien and Monique Flecken (2017). First things first: Cross-linguistic analyses of event apprehension. Linguistic Diversity Meets The Brain: Future directions in the language sciences. Workshop at the Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich on 15th–17th May 2017. (oral presentation)
Gerwien, J. & Kexin Xi (2017). Predicting object states in Mandarin Chinese – insights from the bǎ-construction. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 29-April 1, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts. (poster presentation) [researchgate]
Ran Wang & Gerwien, J. (2017). Processing discourse referents in Mandarin active and passive SOV sentences. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 29-April 1, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts. (poster presentation) abstract and poster
Gerwien, J. & Rudka, M. (2016). Using the visual world paradigm to study the online processing of the German scalar focus particle “sogar”. 3rd AttLis workshop, 10–11 March 2016, Potsdam, Germany. (poster presentation) [researchgate]
Kurucz, I. & Gerwien, J. (2016). 'Save the date' - Eye movements during calendar date processing reflect pre-articulatory self-monitoring. 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 3-5, 2016, Gainesville, Florida. (poster presentation) poster
Gerwien, J. & v. Stutterheim, C. (2016). Grammatical constraints on event packaging and potential effects on the segmentation of the perceptual stream: Motion events in language and cognition under a cross linguistic perspective. Pre-CUNY workshop: Events in Language and Cognition - 2016, Gainesville, Florida, March 2nd, 2016. (oral presentation)
v. Stutterheim, C., Bouhous, A, & Gerwien, J. (2016). The impact of aspectual categories on the construal of motion events: The case of Tunisian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. EXAL+ NYU, Abu Dhabi 2016. (poster presentation) poster
Rudka, M. & Gerwien, J. (2015). The focus sensitive element German "sogar" – Does the procedural meaning of sogar help speakers to accelerate the comprehension of a semantic scale?. 14th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, 2015, Antverp, Belgium. (poster presentation)
Gerwien, J. & Flecken, M. (2015). Structural priming in the production of progressive aspect in Dutch. CUNY 2015, San Diego, USA. (poster presentation)
Gerwien, J., Bouhaous, A. & v. Stutterheim, C. (2015). Typological differences in spatial and aspectual perspective taking in descriptions of dynamic scenes. DGFS Jahrestagung, 2015, Leipzig, Germany. (poster presentation)
Gerwien, J. (invited talk). How to Get into People's Heads - Three psycholinguistic methods to investigate viewpoint aspect. Institute of English Philology (Prof. Joanna Blaszczak), University of Wroclaw, Poland (November 2014).
Gerwien, J. & Flecken, M. (poster presentation). ‘Progressive’ priming in sentence production: conceptual and form-related features of progressive aspect in Dutch. AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France (September 2013). poster
Flecken, M. & Gerwien, J. (oral presentation). Event duration estimations are modulated by grammatical aspect. AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France (September 2013).
Flecken, M. & Gerwien, J. (poster presentation). Is Event Apprehension Language-Specific? A Comparison of Spanish and German. AMLaP 2012, Riva del Garda, Italy (September 2012). abstract and poster.
Flecken, M., Gerwien, J. & v. Stutterheim, C. Typological constraints on event conceptualization: implications for L2 processing. Talk at ESF exploratory workshop, University of Reading (UK) (September 2012).