I am a postdoc at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, and a junior researcher at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
My research in recent years has focused on questions at the intersection of gender and language — for example, when speakers acquire gender as a grammatical category and how it shapes cognitive biases later in life. I have also conducted multiple studies quantifying various properties of words, providing resources that facilitate research on lexical processing and representation in diverse populations.
Selected publications
Brand, J., Preininger, M., Kříž, A., & Ceháková, M. (2025). Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender. Language and Cognition, 17, e34.
Preininger, M., Brand, J., & Kříž, A. (2022). Quantifying the socio-semantic representations of words. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 2994-3000). Cognitive Science Society.