Understanding changes everything

Associate Professor of Linguistics – Saarland University

We communicate all the time — yet we do not always understand the same thing.

My research asks why.

People differ in how they process information. Situations shape what we notice, expect, and express. Language itself varies across contexts, communities, and time.

For more than a decade, I have studied these patterns using computational and information-theoretic methods. Increasingly, I am interested in what they reveal about the people behind them: how differences in information processing shape communication, mutual understanding, and connection.

Because understanding these differences may ultimately help us understand each other better.

---

---