Ricarda Bothe

Ricarda has been a part of the Language Psychology Research Group at the Georg Elias Müller Institute for Psychology since September 2019. Since February 2023, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the SFB Project 1528 "Cognition of Interaction" (https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/679143.html), where the characterization of learning as a dynamic interaction between the child and the social context is investigated.

In June 2023, Ricarda obtained her doctorate in collaboration with the University of Potsdam within the Language Psychology Research Group. In her dissertation, she examined overarching influences in the early stages of word learning in toddlers, funded by the DFG FG 2253 "Crossing the borders: The interplay of language, cognition, and the brain in early human development" (https://crossing-project.de). Additionally, she is a member of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Göttingen (https://www.primate-cognition.eu/en/home.html).

Before joining the research group, Ricarda studied psychology at the University of Paul Valéry Montpellier and the University of Washington from 2013 to 2016. She completed her bachelor's degree in collaboration with the Seattle Children's Research Institute. She then pursued her master's degree in Cognitive Science at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, where she wrote her thesis in the Department of Psycholinguistics and Language Development. As part of a research project at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, she investigated Wh-prime structures in students learning German as a second language.