Biographisches

Berufs- und Lehrerfahrung

• seit 2021 PostDoc im Projekt "Communication Electrified" zu Sprache in Interaktion bei Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher.
• 2017 - 2020 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 1252 "Prominence in Language", Projekt B07 "Agentivity as a Key to Prominence".
• 2016 - 2017 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I, Universität zu Köln; Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen (Phonetik, Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax, Semantik, Pragmatik); Semantische Verarbeitung in naturalistischen Kontexten.
• 2014 - 2016 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
• Einführungsveranstaltungen in Syntax/Morphologie und Semantik/Pragmatik.
• Experimentalpraktikum für Masterstudierende.

Ausbildung

• 2018 Promotion in allgemeiner Sprachwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Thema: Prädiktive Prozesse in der Verarbeitung von anaphorischen Ausdrücken in natürlichen Kontexten und ereignis-korrelierte Potentiale (summa cum laude).
• 2014 M.A. Linguistik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Identität oder Distinktheit: Eine Frequenzbandanalyse der P3b und P600.
• 2011 B.A. Linguistik, Universität Leipzig.
• 2007 Abitur.

Mitgliedschaften

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
• Society for the Neurobiology of Language
• Australian Linguistic Society

Publikationen

• Herausgeberschaft

• Kretzschmar, F., Brilmayer, I., Alday, P.M., Martine Grice & Roel Willems (in progress) Variability in language predictions: Assessing the influence of speaker, text and experimental method. Frontiers Research Topic.

• Zeitschriftenartikel:

• Kretzschmar, F., Alday, P., Grice, M. & Brilmayer, I. (2023). Editorial: Variability in Language Predictions: Assessing the Influence of Speaker, Text and Experimental Method. Frontiers in communication, 6.

• Schumacher, P. B., Weiland-Breckle, H., Reul, G., & Brilmayer, I. (2023). Tracking meaning evolution in the brain: Processing consequences of conventionalization. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/g9bn3

• Gregori, Alina, Federica Amici, Ingmar Brilmayer, Aleksandra Cwiek, Lennart Fritzsche, Susanne Fuchs, Alexander Henlein, Oliver Herbort, Frank Kügler, Jens Lemanski, Katja Liebal, Andy Lücking, Alexander Mehler, Kim Tien Nguyen, Wim Pouw, Pilar Prieto, Patrick Rohrer, Paula G. Sanchez-Ramon, Martin Schulte-Rüther, Petra B. Schumacher, Stefan Schweinberger, Volker Struckmeier, Patrick Trettenbrein & Celina von Eiff. (in press). A roadmap for technological innovation in multimodal communication research. Proceedings of the 25th International COnference on Human-Computer Interaction.

• Brilmayer, I., & Schumacher, P. B. (2021). Referential Chains Reveal Predictive Processes and Form-to-Function Mapping: An EEG Study Using Naturalistic Story Stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 3316.
• Kretzschmar, F. & Brilmayer, I. (2021). Zooming in on agentivity: Experimental studies of Do-clefts in German. Linguistics Vanguard.
• Ventura, Caterina, Martine Grice, Michelina Savino, Diana Kolev, Ingmar Brilmayer & Petra B. Schumacher. (2020). Attention Allocation in a Language with Post-Focal Prominences. NeuroReport [pdf]
• Röhr, C. T., I. Brilmayer, S. Baumann, M. Grice & P. B. Schumacher. 2020. Signal-Driven and Expectation-Driven Processing of Accent Types. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. [url]
• Brilmayer, I., Werner, A., Primus, B., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2019). The exceptional nature of the first person in natural story processing and the transfer of egocentricity. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(4), 411-427. [url] [preprint]
• Brilmayer, I., Sassenhagen, J., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. & Schlesewsky, M. (2017). Domain-general neural correlates of dependency formation: using complex tones to simulate language. Cortex, 93. [url] [pdf]

• Vorträge:

• Brilmayer (2018). Perspektivenwechsel in narrativen Texten: der Effekt von Figur und Person auf die neuronale Verarbeitung von Pronomen. Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 2018 in Stuttgart.
• Brilmayer (2018). The transfer of egophoricity during narrative comprehension: event-related potential correlates. Presentation at the Foschungsklasse: Prominenz in Morpho-Syntax und Semantik of the Collaborative Research Center for Prominence, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• Brilmayer (2017). I, you or the other? Event-related potential correlates of social interaction during narrative comprehension. Oral presentation at the Lab-Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
• Brilmayer, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Schlesewsky (2017). The effect of context growth and lexical antecedent frequency on the EEG response to anaphoric pronouns during the comprehension of auditory stories. Accepted for oral presentation at the workshop "Revising formal semantic and pragmatic theories from a neurocognitive perspective" in Bochum.
• Brilmayer, Kandylaki, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Schlesewsky (2016). This is definitely not relevant for the story. Voice, definiteness and the cataphoric function of the grammatical subject. Oral presentation at the 47th annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society in Melbourne.
• Brilmayer (2016). Interaktion lokaler und globaler Information in der Diskursverarbeitung: Definitheit in natürlichen Kontexten. Vortrag im empirischen Kolloqium, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Universität zu Köln, am 12. Juli 2016.
• Brilmayer (2015). Räumliche Aufmerksamkeit und sequentielles Arbeitsgedächtnis. Vortrag im Linguistischen Kolloquium des Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, am 5. Januar 2015.

• Poster:

• Brilmayer, Bornkessel-Schleswsky and Schlesewsky (2017). The effect of individual working memory and attention performance on the EEG response to anaphoric pronouns during the comprehension of auditory stories: A single-trial event-related potential study. Poster accepted for presentation at the 3rd DETEC meeting 2017 in Nijmegen.
• Brilmayer, Kandylaki, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Schlesewsky (2016). Predicting discourse topics: Evidence for the privileged role of the syntactic subject during the comprehension of naturalistic auditory stories using event-related potentials. Poster presented at the 8th annual conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in London.
• Brilmayer, Sassenhagen, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Schlesewsky (2014). ERPs and time-frequency analysis reveal dissociable submechanisms in the establishment of relational dependencies between complex auditory objects. Poster presented at the 6th annual conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in Amsterdam.
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