Sara Farshchi

Sara Farshchi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lund University Humanities Lab under the Centre for Languages and Literature, specializing in English Studies. Her research focuses on experimental investigations of language processing, particularly the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the comprehension of negated meanings.

Research Interests:

• Investigating the processing cost of negation in language using EEG/ERP and eye-tracking.
• Studying predictability in negated contexts and its neural correlates.
• Exploring pragmatics and language comprehension through experimental methodologies.

Scientific Awards:

• Thesis award for outstanding research and dissertation from The New Society of Letters at Lund.

Collaborations and Networks:

• Coordinator of the Neurolinguistics in Sweden (NLS) network.
• Treasurer for the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) since 2024.
• Active in projects like 'How the human mind makes use of contraries in everyday life' (2023–2031).

Research Trends: Her work emphasizes cognitive neuroscience and neurolinguistics, with recent studies analyzing ERP responses, auditory language processing, and comparative negation dynamics in sentences.