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Dr. Lars Meyer
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2005 Magisterzwischenprüfung (with distinction) German Language and Literature & Philosophy University of Hanover, Germany
2008 M. Sc. (with distinction)
European Masters Clinical Linguistics (EMCL) University of Potsdam, Germany
2013 Ph. D. (summa cum laude)
Neurolinguistics
University of Potsdam, Germany
Wissenschaftliche und akademische Erfahrungen 2004-2007 Graduate assistant & tutor
University of Hanover, Germany 08/1999-10/1999 “Mini-
fellowship” bei Prof. Pascual-Leone am “Laboratory of Magnetic Brain Stimulation”, Boston, MA, USA
2009 Intern
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
2009-2012 Ph. D. student
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Seit 2012 Research staff
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Mitgliedschaften und Forschungsadministration
• EMCL alumni network (Administrator)
• MPI CBS IT commission (Sprecher)
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society (Mitglied)
• Society for Neuroscience (Mitglied)
Publikationen
In revision Meyer, L., Cunitz, K., Obleser, J., & Friederici, A. D. Sentence processing and verbal working memory in a white-matter- disconnection patient. Neuropsychologia.
To appear Meyer, L. & Friederici, A. D. Neural systems underlying the processing of syntactic complexity. To appear in G. S. Hickok &
S. L. Small (Eds.), Neurobiology of Language.
Piai, V., Meyer, L., Schreuder, R., & Bastiaansen, M. C. M. Sit down and read on: Working memory and long-term memory in particle-verb processing. Brain and Language.
2013 Scharinger, M., Henry, M. J., Erb, J., Meyer, L., & Obleser, J.
Thalamic and parietal brain morphology predicts auditory category learning. Neuropsychologia.
Meyer, L., Obleser, J., & Friederici, A. D. Working memory- intensive sentence processing enhances left parietal alpha activity. Cortex 49(3), 711–721.
2012 Meyer, L., Obleser, J., Kiebel, S. J., & Friederici, A. D.
Spatiotemporal dynamics of argument storage and integration:
an fMRI and EEG study. Frontiers in Language Sciences 3(523).
Meyer, L., Obleser, J., Anwander, A., & Friederici, A. D. Linking ordering in Broca's area to storage in left temporo-parietal regions: The case of sentence processing. NeuroImage 62(3), 1987–1998.
2011 Obleser, J., Meyer, L., & Friederici, A. D. Dynamic Assignment of Processing Resources in Auditory Language
Comprehension. NeuroImage 56(4), 2310–2320.
2008 Meyer, L. Funktionalismus und Formalismus im Rekurs auf Humboldt und Saussure. Kodikas 31(1–2), 29–57.
2013 Fengler, A., Meyer, L., & Friederici, A. D. How Broca’s Area Attunes to Syntactic Processing. Poster at the 19th Annual HBM Meeting, Seattle, USA.
2012 Meyer, L., Obleser, J., Cunitz, K., & Friederici, A. D. The Dorsal Tract Supports Working Memory, Specifically Affecting
Sentence Processing: A Single-Case-Study. Poster at the 12th GAB, Leipzig, Germany.
Männel, C., Meyer, L., Wilcke, A., Kirsten, H., & Friederici, A. D.
Working memory-relevant gray matter in the left pSTG relates to genetic risk and diagnostic status in Developmental Dyslexia:
A VBM study. Poster at Neuroscience 2012, New Orleans, USA.
Meyer, L., Obleser, J., & Friederici, A. D. Functional lateralization of the inferior frontal gyrus during sentence processing: The influence of structural lateralization and
handedness. Poster at Neuroscience 2012, New Orleans, USA.
Hubert, A., Meyer, L., & Friederici, A. D. Aktivierungen im Sprachnetzwerk des kindlichen Gehirns—ein Zusammenspiel aus grammatischen Fähigkeiten, Arbeitsgedächtnisleistungen und neuroanatomischen Voraussetzungen. Talk at GISKID, Leipzig, Germany.
2011 Grey, S., Meyer, L., & Müller, J. A Time-Frequency
Perspectiveon the Learning of Non-Adjacent Dependencies in Adults. Poster at NSF PIRE Summer School, Frauenwörth, Germany.
Meyer, L., Obleser, J., & Friederici, A. D. Separating Argument Storage and Manipulation in Sentence Processing. Poster at Structuring the Argument, Paris, France.
Hubert, A., Meyer, L., Skeide, M., & Friederici, A. D. Childrens’
language comprehension abilities correlate with grey matter density of the left inferior parietal lobe. Poster at the 17th Annual HBM Meeting, Quebec City, Canada.
Meyer, L., Obleser, J., & Friederici, A. D. Broca's Area does not only subserve Verbal Working Memory. Poster at the 18th Annual CNS Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
2010 Meyer, L., Obleser, J., & Friederici, A. D. Distinct Brain-Electric Signatures for Order and Distance in Sentence Processing.
Poster at the 16th AMLaP 2010, York, United Kingdom.
Meyer, L., Obleser, J., & Friederici, A. D. When Complex Grammar Must Pass the Bottleneck of Degraded Acoustics: an fMRI Study. Poster at the 17th Annual CNS Meeting. Montrèal, Canada.
2007 Meyer, L. Funktionalismus und Formalismus im Rekurs auf Humboldt and Saussure. Talk at the 29th Annual Conference of the DGfS, Siegen, Germany.
2006 Meyer, L. Ellipsis of German Obligatory Adverbials. Talk at the 29th StuTS, Berne, Switzerland.
Weitere Vorträge
2013 Meyer, L. The Working Memory of Argument–Verb
Dependencies. Linguistische Werkstatt, Bamberg, Germany.
Meyer, L. The Spatiotemporal Brain Dynamics of Argument–
Verb-Dependency Processing. EMCL Guest Speaker Seminar, Potsdam, Germany.
2012 Meyer, L. Cortical Oscillations During Working-Memory- Intensive Sentence Processing. Donders Discussions, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
2011 Meyer, L. Separating Storage and Manipulation in Sentence Processing. EMCL Guest Speaker Seminar, Potsdam, Germany.
De Bleser, R. & Meyer, L. Building up scientific networks in Erasmus Mundus: from student to graduate to PhD networking.
Erasmus Employability Workshop, Leuven, Belgium.
Meyer, L. Before, after and during being a student in the EMCL.
Symposium in Honor of Ria De Bleser, Potsdam, Germany.
Begutachtung
• Brain
• Brain and Cognition
• Brain and Language
• Language and Linguistics Compass
• Nature Neuroscience
• Neuron
• Neuroscience Letters
