Francesca Delogu

Dr. Francesca Delogu is a Scientific Associate at Saarland University's Department of Linguistics and Language Technology. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of online language understanding, particularly expectation-based mechanisms, event/script knowledge, pragmatic inferences, and reference processes.

• Specializes in ERP (Event-Related Potentials) and eye tracking methodologies
• Collaborates extensively with Prof. Matthew W. Crocker and Dr. Herbert Brouwer

Her work examines how extra-linguistic knowledge influences semantic integration and lexical retrieval, with applications in computational linguistics and language technology. She has taught courses on experimental methods in psycholinguistic research since 2012.

Key research trends include the functional dissociation of ERP components (N400/P600) in language comprehension, rational redundancy in referential expressions, and the role of discourse context in expectation generation. Her publications span journals like Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Brain Research.