Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - Department of German Studies and Linguistics

Talks and Posters

  • Claus, B. (March 2014). Embodiment and modalisation: Grounding of desiderative modality (Vortrag). 36. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (AG 8: Converging evidence? Embodied views of basic categories in language and cognition). Marburg. [slides]
  • Claus, B. (February 2014). Are adjectival-passive states evaluated against a contrasting state? Juxtaposing adjectival passives with adjectives and with verbal passives (Vortrag). Linguistic Evidence 2014. Tübingen. [slides]
  • Hasenäcker, J. & Claus, B. (October 2013). What’s up with valence? – Investigating conceptual metaphors in the processing of emotional words (Poster). Investigating semantics: Empirical and philosophical approaches. Bochum.
  • Claus, B. & Kelter, S. (September 2013). Five minutes vs. an hour ago: processing flashbacks in narratives (Poster). AMLaP 2013, 19th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Marseille. [poster]
  • Tóth, A. & Claus, B. (September 2013). Environmental context affects visual word recognition in bilinguals (Poster). AMLaP 2013, 19th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Marseille. [poster]
  • Claus, B. (March 2013). Opened (not closed): Do adjectival passives activate a contrasting state? (Poster). 55. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Vienna, Austria. [poster]
  • Claus, B. (October 2012). Geöffnet (nicht geschlossen) - wird bei der Interpretation eines Zustandspassivs ein Kontrastzustand mental aktiviert? (Talk). DaF-Kolloquium, HU Berlin.
  • Claus, B. (September 2012). John opens a juice bottle and Jim a lemonade bottle - novel evidence for the on-line reactivation of gapped verb information? (Poster). Workshop: Understanding the meaning of words and sentences: The role of non-linguistic processes. Tübingen, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (September 2012). Non-linguistic processes and sentence modality: Desiderative mode and approach/avoidance actions (invited talk). Workshop "Understanding the meaning of words and sentences: The role of non-linguistic processes". Tübingen, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (September 2012). Juxtaposing adjectival and verbal passives (Poster). AMLaP 2012, 18th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Riva del Garda, Italy.
  • Claus, B. (April 2012). Verb gapping: John opens a juice bottle and Jim a lemonade bottle - novel evidence for the on-line reactivation of gapped verb information? (Poster). 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Mannheim, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (November 2011). Gapping - On-line reactivation of verb information? Evidence from an action/gapped verb compatibility study (invited talk). Guest lecture series of the SFB 732. Universität Stuttgart, Germany. [slides]
  • Claus, B. & Dalati, Y. (September 2011). Mental simulation of actions conveyed by gapped verbs? (Talk). AMLaP 2011, 17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Paris, France.
  • Claus, B. (July 2011). Representing referents of partitioning and non-partitioning plural expressions (invited talk). 3rd Workshop on Semantic Processing, Logic, and Cognition. Tübingen, Germany. [slides]
  • Claus, B., Fuchs, L., & Schorr, C. (October 2010). Online comprehension of desiderative-mood sentences: Evidence for an immediate activation of the approach system (Talk). 10. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. Potsdam, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (June 2010). Simulationstheorien des Sprachverstehens: Implikationen für die Verarbeitung und Repräsentation beschriebener Sachverhalte (invited talk). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
  • Claus, B. & Bader, R. (March 2010). Verarbeitung von Beschreibungen gewünschter Situationen: Interaktion von Satzmodalität und annäherungs- vs. vermeidungsbezogenen Handlungen (Talk). 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Saarbrücken, Germany.
  • Claus, B. & Vozikaki, K. (February 2010). Interpreting pronouns referring to the arguments of experiencer/stimulus verbs: reversed antecedent preferences for causal and consecutive connectives (Talk). Linguistic Evidence 2010. Tübingen, Germany. [slides]
  • Kukina, O. & Claus, B. (February 2010). Is an open window the same as an opened one? Evidence that adjectives and adjectival passives differentially affect comprehension (Talk). Linguistic Evidence 2010. Tübingen, Germany.
  • Claus, B. & Bader, R. (January 2010). Desiderative sentence mood and approach-avoidance actions (Poster). EPS Workshop on the Representation of Abstract Words. London, England.
  • Claus, B. (December 2009). "For one hour", "One year later" et al (Talk). FEAST. Saarland University.
  • Claus, B. (December 2009). Does processing sentences in desiderative mood involve an activation of the approach system? (invited talk). Kolloquium Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen.
  • Claus, B. (September 2009). An hour later vs. six hours later: do comprehenders attend to the size of narrative time shifts? (Poster). AMLaP 2009, 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Barcelona, Spain.
  • Kukina, O. & Claus, B. (September 2009). Adjectives vs. adjectival passives in descriptions of desired states: does the form affect comprehension? (Poster). AMLaP 2009, 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Barcelona, Spain.
  • Claus, B. & Bader, R. (July 2009). Flexing versus extending: approach-avoidance actions affect the processing of desiderative-mood sentences (Poster). ESLP09, Workshop Embodied and Situated Language Processing. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Claus, B. (April 2009). Representing narrated time in text comprehension (invited talk). 2nd Workshop on Semantic Processing, Logic and Cognition. Tübingen, Germany.
  • Claus, B. & Bader, R. (March 2009). Action-mood-compatibility: Desiderative sentence mood and approach/avoidance actions (Poster). 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, USA.
  • Claus, B. (December 2008). Embodied language processing: desiderative sentence mood and approach/avoidance actions (Talk). FEAST. Saarland University.
  • Claus, B. & Kaup, B. (October 2008). Processing and representing the temporal structure of described events (Introduction to the Symposium Melting Frozen Time). 9. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. Dresden, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (July 2008). Comprehending descriptions of non-factual desired situations: Discourse referents and motor actions (invited talk). Constraints in Discourse III. Potsdam, Germany.
  • Claus, B. & Bader, R. (July 2008). Processing sentences in desiderative mood affects approach/avoidance actions (Talk). XXIX International Congress of Psychology. Berlin, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (January 2008). Discourse referents for nonspecific entities of described nonfactual situations (Poster). Linguistic Evidence 2008. Tübingen, Germany. [poster]
  • Claus, B. (August 2007). Accessing discourse referents for nonspecific versus specific entities (Talk). 13th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Turku, Finland. [slides]
  • Kelter, S. & Claus, B. (August 2007). Processing visuospatial information during reading and listening: the reading-interference hypothesis (Talk). ESP07, workshop on embodied sentence processing. Saarbrücken, Germany.
  • Claus, B. & Bader, R. (August 2007). Pushing versus pulling: Desiderative sentence mood facilitates approach related motor actions (Talk). ESP07, workshop on embodied sentence processing. Saarbrücken, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (December 2006). Simulating the described world: Representation of duration and order of described events (invited talk). University of Dundee, Scotland.
  • Claus, B. (November 2006). The simulation view of language comprehension: Implications for the representation of spatial and temporal aspects of the described world (invited talk). Saarland University.
  • Claus, B. & Kelter, S. (March 2006). Repräsentation der Referenten pluraler Ausdrücke (Talk). 48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Mainz, Germany. [slides]
  • Claus, B. & Kaup, B. (March 2006). Einführung zum Symposium Effekte des beschriebenen Sachverhalts und der Art und Weise der Beschreibung beim Satz- und Textverstehen 48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Mainz, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (September 2005). Hypothetical situations described in narratives: The mental representation of described desire worlds (invited talk). University of Plymouth, England.
  • Kelter, S. & Claus, B. (July 2005). How do readers deal with flashbacks in narratives? (Talk). XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy.
  • Claus, B. & Kelter, S. (July 2005). Processing flashbacks in narratives: The effect of temporal distance (Poster). 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Claus, B. (June 2005). How do comprehenders mentally represent narrated hypothetical situations? (invited talk). Trinity College, Dublin, Irland.
  • Claus, B. (June 2005). Mentale Repräsentation von in narrativen Texten geschilderten Wunschwelten (invited talk). Institut für Psychologie, Universität Potsdam.
  • Claus, B. (April 2005). Repräsentation beschriebener Wunschwelten beim Textverstehen (Poster). 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Regensburg, Germany.
  • Kelter, S. & Claus, B. (April 2005). Verarbeitung von Rückblendesätzen beim Lesen narrativer Texte (Poster). 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Regensburg, Germany.
  • Claus, B. & Kelter, S. (April 2004). Zum Verstehen von narrativen Texten mit Rückblenden (Talk). 46. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Gießen, Germany.
  • Kelter, S. & Claus, B. (June 2003). Representing a non-chronologically described sequence of events (Talk). 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Madrid, Spain.
  • Kelter, S. & Claus, B. (March 2003). Zum Verstehen pluraler Nominalphrasen (Poster). 45. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Kiel, Germany.
  • Lang, P., Claus, B. & Kelter, S. (September 2002). Repräsentation der Dauer und Chronologie von Ereignissen beim Textverstehen (Talk). 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Berlin, Germany.
  • Claus, B., Kelter, S., Liebe, G. & Specht, A. (March 2002). Repräsentation nicht chronologisch geschilderter Ereignisfolgen in Mentalen Modellen (Talk). 44. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Chemnitz, Germany.
  • Claus, B., Kaup, B. & Kelter, S. (September 2001). Text modality affects spatial information processing in narrative text comprehension (Talk). 5. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. Leipzig, Germany.
  • Kelter, S., Kaup, B. & Claus, B. (September 2001). Two types of plural expressions and the mental representation of their referents (Poster). 7th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Saarbrücken, Germany.
  • Kelter, S., Claus, B., Liebe, G. & Specht, A. (June 2001). Textverstehen und nicht-sprachliche Kognition (Talk). Kognitionswissenschaftliches Symposium Berlin-Brandenburg. Berlin.
  • Claus, B. (June 2000). Kohärenz ist keine Eigenschaft von Texten sondern von Repräsentationen (invited talk). KIT- Kolloquium "Kohärenz", FB Informatik, TU Berlin.
  • Claus, B. (May 2000). Representation of temporal duration in text comprehension (Talk). Workshop "Mental Models, Mental Imagery, and Text Comprehension". Dresden, Germany.
  • Liebe, G., Peters, A., Claus, B., Kaup, B. & Kelter, S. (April 2000). Lesebedingte Interferenz beim Aufbau räumlicher Repräsentationen (Poster). 42. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Braunschweig, Germany.
  • Claus, B. (March 1999). Inferenz diskurszeitabhängiger Sachverhaltsänderungen beim Textverstehen (Talk). 41. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Leipzig, Germany.
  • Hörnig, R., Eyferth, K., Gärtner, H. & Claus, B. (March 1999). Führt dynamische ebenso wie statische Beschreibung zu einer egozentrischen Objekt-Lokalisierung in mentalen Modellen? (Poster). 41. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Leipzig, Germany.
  • Hörnig, R., Claus, B. & Eyferth, K. (August 1998). In search for an overall organizing principle in spatial mental models: A question of inference (Talk). Mind III: The Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland. Dublin, Ireland.
  • Hörnig, R., Claus, B. & Eyferth, K. (April 1998). Inferenz bezugsystem-gebundener Objektpositionen bei gehörter und gelesener Textinformation (Talk). 40. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Marburg, Germany.
  • Kaup, B., Kelter, S., Claus, B. & Kindsmüller, M. C. (September 1997). Zur Repräsentation der Zeitdauer in Diskurswelten (Talk). 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. Jena, Germany.
  • Hörnig, R., Claus, B. & Eyferth, K. (March 1997). "Dort steht der Kühlschrank" - "Der Kühlschrank steht rechts": Objektlokalisierung in mentalen Modellen (Talk). 39. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Berlin, Germany.
  • Hörnig, R., Claus, B. & Eyferth, K. (April 1996). Perspektivität raum-analoger mentaler Modelle (Talk). 38. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Eichstätt, Germany.
  • Durstewitz, D. & Claus, B. (February 1994). Zum Einfluß unterschiedlicher Raum- und Tätigkeitsbeschreibungen auf Perspektive in Situationsmodellen (Talk). 2. Meilenstein des interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts Kognition und Kontext, TU Berlin.