Merle Schuckart has recently put out the center piece of her doctoral research. Out in open access journal eLife, Merle led a diverse team — the Obleser and the Tune groups of Lübeck, the Hartwigsen lab (Leipzig) , and Lea-Maria Schmitt from the Donders institute in Nijmegen — through a multi-study endeavour how reading, as a sensitive metric of how we form predictions in language comprehension, responds in readers of different age. In particular, Merle shows that concurrent cognitive load interacts non-trivially with this predictive and seemingly automatic language comprehension. Check it out!
PS: fun fact — Merle is great illustrator and does her own scientific drawings.
