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

21 June 2025 — A paper by my students, K. Trinley and N. Dzhubaeva, was accepted at ACL-SRW. 

20 June 2025 — I presented a talk on the effects of familiarity, aptness, and concreteness on metaphor comprehension at MenLex 2025 (in collaboration with C. Genovesi and R. G. de Almeida).

19 June 2025 — Our submission to AMLaP was accepted as a talk (in collaboration with J. Duff).

6 June 2025 — Our submission to XPRAG was accepted as a poster (in collaboration with C. Antal and R. G. de Almeida).

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

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.