I am a researcher in Linguistics at the University of Potsdam and currently pursuing a PhD in cognitive science with Shravan Vasishth. My research centers on language processing and memory. I'm particularly interested in the processes that enable people to combine words into sentences. To understand these processes, I'm running experiments with a combination of behavioural and electrophysiological techniques. I'm employed in a project in which we use these methods to investigate the resolution of linguistic dependencies (EM-ERPs and anaphoric resolution).

I do most of my programming and analysis in R, but there is also the occasional Python or Bash script. Whatever seems potentially useful for the general public can be found on my code page.

In case you're living in Berlin or Potsdam and would like to participate in one of our experiments, please visit our participant pool and sign up: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vlab.

In my spare time, I am an avid road cyclist.

Contact

University of Potsdam
Department of Linguistics
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25
D-14476 Potsdam
House 14, Room 2.36
(+49 331) 977 2309

paul(dot)metzner(at)uni-potsdam.de


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Talks

Metzner, P. (2012, January). Do people differ in their use of heuristics in sentence processing? Invited talk at Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin/German.

Metzner, P. (2011, March). Die Interaktion von impliziter Kausalität und Arbeitsgedächtnis bei der Satzverarbeitung. Paper presented at TeaP, Halle/Germany.

Posters

Metzner, P. (2011, September). Do people differ in their use of heuristics in sentence processing? Poster presented at AMLaP, Paris/France.

Metzner, P. (2011, March). Can the asymmetric effect of implicit causality be explained through usage patterns? Poster presented at Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL), Berlin/Germany.