About Us Leja Korneffel
HCIAS Research Associate
Leja Korneffel is a research associate at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), where she contributes to the coordination and further development of the international double degree programmes Specialized Translation and Cultural Mediation, in cooperation with the University of Salamanca, and Specialized Translation and Translation Technologies, in cooperation with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
She holds a master’s degree in psychology from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and completed the international double degree programme in Specialized Translation and Translation Technologies at Heidelberg University and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She also participated in study exchanges in Brazil and Japan.
Research
Leja's research interests lie in psycholinguistics and experimental pragmatics. Her work focuses on the cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension and meaning construction. In particular, she investigates how contextual information influences real-time language comprehension and how listeners derive context-dependent meanings. Her research primarily employs experimental methods such as eye-tracking.
Contact
Leja korneffel
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies | HCIAS
Brunnengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
Email: leja.korneffel(at)uni-heidelberg.de