Lena Blott

Dr. Lena Blott is an Academic Staff Member in the Department of English Studies I at the University of Mannheim's School of Humanities. She is currently on parental leave. Her research focuses on psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience, particularly examining language comprehension mechanisms, individual differences in cognition, and neural processing costs during sentence reinterpretation. Recent work includes studies on item-level variability in experimental design and behavioral/neural responses to linguistic ambiguity.

• Education: Doctorate in Linguistics/Psychology (inferred from title)

Her research employs experimental methods to investigate how humans process linguistic information in real time, with particular attention to neural correlates of misinterpretation recovery and presentation format effects. Key contributions include analysis of control conditions in psycholinguistic experiments and behavioral-neural dissociations in sentence processing.

Recent publications (2021–2023) explore recovery from sentence misinterpretations, neural processing costs of reinterpretation, and methodological challenges in studying individual differences. Consultation hours are by appointment.