Manuel Hons

Neural substrates of pragmatics in political discourse

In my PhD project we’re trying to identify the neural markers of pragmatics in political discourse. Pragmatics, i.e., context dependent speech, and violations thereof, have been shown to elicit a characteristic short-term brain response pattern. We intend to prove the existence of this pattern in the political domain. We tackle this challenge by using a combination of neuroscientific and machine learning methods.