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Stefan Elmers research mainly focuses on a better understanding of the functional and structural neuroarchitecture underlying speech and language processing in association with learning, training and expertise in several domains. Using different neuroimaging techniques, he examined the brain properties of professional simultaneous interpreters, and addressed cognitive and linguistic functions (e.g., lexical-semantic access, code-switching and cognitive control mechanisms) in multilingual individuals with different degrees of language expertise. Furthermore, he investigated the multifaceted relationships between music training and speech processing at different linguistic scales, and provided evidence for transfer effects in both perceptual and cognitive domains. A further aim of his research is to provide insights into the perceptual, cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in word and language learning.
In the year 2010, Stefan Elmer obtained his doctoral degree in cognitive neuroscience at the Department of Neuropsychology (UZH) where until 2022 he was chief assistant at the laboratory of Professor Lutz Jäncke and responsible for the auditory research group. Furthermore, in the year 2017 he worked as a visiting senior researcher in the Cognition and Brain Plasticity group of Professor Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells in Barcelona. In the year 2022, he moved to the Computational Neuroscience of Speech & Hearing group headed by Professor Nathalie Giroud at the Department of Computational Linguistics.
