Valerie Keller studied Cognitive Linguistics in Bern and Berlin, and has been a scholarship holder in Professor John A. Nyakatura's working group since 2018. Her master's dissertation explored the influence of procedural knowledge on the processing of body part-specific verbs in a cross-modal semantic priming study. In collaboration with the Brain Language Laboratory at the FU Berlin, she is examining the corporeal conditionality of the perception of motion in images in the project "Picture Act and Body Knowledge".