Dr. Pia Schoknecht
I work as a Postdoc in the Vasishth Lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany. I use behavioral and electrophysiological methods to investigate how we use our memory and prediction during language processing.
Email: pia.schoknecht at uni minus potsdam dot de
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0304-6787
CV
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2020 - ongoing
- Dr. phil: Psychological, Neurological and Clinical Linguistics, University of Salzburg, Austria, 2020 (Supervisors: Dietmar Roehm, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky)
- MA Linguistics: Cognition and Communication, University of Marburg, Germany, 2014
- BA Language and Communication, University of Marburg, Germany, 2012
Publications
Preprints
Schoknecht, P. and Vasishth, S. (2026). Local coherence effects are task sensitive: Evidence from event-related potentials in German. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3b27u_v1
Schoknecht, P., Paape, D. and Vasishth, S. (2025). The time course of local coherence effects in German: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/y8jf6_v3
Peer-reviewed
Schoknecht, P., Yadav, H. and Vasishth, S. (2025). Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German. Journal of Memory and Language. 141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104599
Schoknecht, P., Roehm, D., Schlesewsky, M. and Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2022): The interaction of predictive processing and similarity-based retrieval interference: an ERP study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(7), 883-901. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2026421
Dissertation
Schoknecht, P. (2020): The Interplay of Interference and Prediction during Language Comprehension. (Doctoral dissertation).