Laura Pissani, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Departments of Language Science and Technology & Computer Science

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Saarland University, where I investigate how language is processed and represented in the brain. My interdisciplinary research integrates theoretical frameworks from Linguistics—particularly semantics and pragmatics—with experimental paradigms and advanced statistical modeling from Psychology and Data Science. I examine how language comprehension and production unfold in real time to inform our theoretical understanding while also contributing to practical applications.

📩 Email: laura.pissani@uni-saarland.de
📍 Office: Saarland University
Language Science and Technology
Campus C7 2, Room 3.04
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany 

News

05 April 2025 — Our submission to CogSci 2025 was accepted as a talk (in collaboration with my student, M. V. Meiser, and V. Demberg).

27 March 2025 — Our submission to MenLex 2025 was accepted as a talk (in collaboration with with C. Genovesi and R. G. de Almeida )

23 February 2025 — My students, K. Trinley and N. Dzhubaeva, submitted a paper to NLP4DH. 

28 January 2025 — Our submission to  RAaM 2025 was accepted as a talk (in collaboration with M. Scholman and V. Demberg)

24-27 September 2024 — I presented a poster on individual differences in metaphor comprehension at XPRAG.it in Venice, Italy.