Sayaka Sato Fonction: Doctorante Marie Curie Bureau: C-4.108 Téléphone: ++41 26 300 7619 Courriel: sayaka.sato

Situation professionnelle

2007-2009
Research assistant (supervisor: Yasunori Morishima), English Language Education, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
2005-2007
M.A. in Education, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

Intérêts de recherche

Cognitive processes in text comprehension including inference generation, cross-linguistic comparisons of reading processes, and second language reading.

Publications

Peer-reviewed - submitted/in revision

Sato, S., Gygax, P., & Gabriel, U. (2011). Two languages, two minds : When grammatical features affect gender representation in bilinguals. Manuscript submitted to Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Non Peer-reviewed 

Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., Lévy, A., Sarrasin, O., & Sato, S. (2012). "Kan en jente blir en mann?" Brannmann kanskje? On the inference of gender in reading comprehension. Psykologisk Tidsskrift, 15(1), 8-13.

Morishima, Y. & Sato, S. (2008). Text comprehension processes in the second language: issues of anaphoric resolution. Educational Studies. 50, 211-219. 

Conférences

Sato, S. & Gygax, P. (July, 2012). Languages influence thought: Effects of gender marked determiners n comprehending gender stereotypical role names. The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Montreal, Canada.

Sato, S. & Gygax, P. (September, 2011). Bilingual gender representation: the impact of language structure over cognition. Symposium presentation (Sczesny, S. & Gabriel, U. (Chairs), Gender-Inclusive Language Use from Cognitive and Social Psychological Perspectives) at the 12th Congress of the Swiss Psychological Society, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Sato, S. & Gygax, P. (July, 2011). Gender Representation in Bilinguals: Processing language and its influence over information processing. The 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Poitiers, France.

Sato, S. & Morishima, Y. (July, 2009). Anaphoric Resolution Processes by Intermediate Second Language learners of English during Text Comprehension. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Rotterdam, Holland. 

Sato, S. (March, 2009). Anaphora Resolution by Intermediate L2 Learners. The 1st Meeting of the Discourse Psychology Research Group, Tokyo, Japan. 

Fukuda, Y., Tsunemi, K., Inohara, K., Morishima, Y., Sato, S. (March, 2009). The Effects of Narrative on Emotion Inferencing. The 1st Meeting of the Discourse Psychology Research Group, Tokyo, Japan. 

Morishima, Y., Hashimoto, S., Sato, S. (May, 2008). The Effects of Readers' Prior Knowledge and Text Coherence on Comprehension. The 8th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association, Kyoto, Japan.