Samuel H. Cosper

Samuel studied linguistics at the University of Paderborn and completed his PhD in cognitive science at the University of Osnabrück, where he worked on the influences of sensory modalities on word learning in infants and adults. Samuel has been working at the TU Dresden since September 2022. His research focuses on sensory processing of different modalities and neuro-cognitive language development.

• Neuroscientific effects of sensory modalities on learning
• Neuroscience of language processing and language development across the lifespan

Bechtold, L., Cosper, S. H., Malyshevskaya, A., Montefinese, M., Morucci, P., Niccolai, V., ... & Shtyrov, Y. (2023). Brain signatures of embodied semantics and language: A consensus paper. Journal of Cognition, 6(1): 61, 1–40. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.237

Cosper, S. H., Männel, C., & Mueller, J. L. (2022). Mechanisms of associative word learning: Benefits from the visual modality and synchrony of labeled objects. Cortex, 152, 36–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CORTEX.2022.03.020

Junge, C., Boumeester, M., Mills, D. L., Paul, M., & Cosper, S. H. (2021). Development of the N400 for word learning in the first 2 years of life: A systematic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 689534. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689534

Cosper, S. H., Männel, C., & Mueller, J. L. (2020). In the absence of visual input: Electrophysiological evidence of infants’ mapping of labels onto auditory objects. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, 100821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100821