M-BIC Language Lab
The Language Lab aims at understanding cognitive and brain mechanisms underlying language and language development. Our lab is part of the Maastricht Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC) founded by the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN/UM) at Maastricht University. We investigate neural transformations of auditory (speech perception) and visual (reading, object perception) signals into meaningful messages and of thoughts and images into speech plans (speech production). Furthermore we investigate the formation and fine-tuning of these transformations during typical and anomalous language development (dyslexia).
Our research employs tailored psychophysical paradigms for adults and children with and without language disorders, combined with measurements of brain activity at high temporal (EEG), spatial (fMRI at 3T, 7T) and spatio-temporal (ECoG) resolution. We zoom into underlying brain mechanisms by analyzing our data using advanced analysis techniques including multivariate EEG/fMRI pattern analysis, functional connectivity and fMRI ‘encoding’ analysis. Moreover we assess individual brain-behavior relations by linking these brain measures to different types of behavioral measures including on-line task performance, real-time MRI of vocal tract gestures and cognitive and reading skills.
Researchers
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Milene Bonte
Head, ProfessorSpeech perception, Language development, Reading, Dyslexia
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Yuewei Cao
Ph.D. StudentDevelopmental Dyslexia, Language Learning, Cross-Cultural Studies
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Francesco Gentile
Assistant Professormultisensory integration, speech production, attentional modulation in sematic processing
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Bernadette Jansma
ProfessorLanguage production, Relation of perception and language, Information selection
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Students
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Anna Berti
Basak Bayram
Tatyana Branco
Ali Canan
Fabián Charria Chávez
Sofia Conaway
Andy Hendrikx
Eirini Kalogeropoulou
Emilia Knop
Aurellia Maheswari
Naz Onat
Weronika Tyrala
Emilia Knop
Melis Eren
Giovanni Menon
Joëlle Mouwen
Marc Nettelbeck
Karolina Niessen
Eva Ružička
Research Assistent
Sai Yadnik
Joëlle Mouwen
Alumni
Mario E Archila-Melendez
Neurosurgery Resident, Klinikum Bogenhausen, Germany
Mart Bles
Senior consultant energietransitie, Enexis Groep, ‘s Hertogenbosch, NL
João Correia
Researcher at University of Algarve, Portugal
Alexandra Emmendorfer
Postdoc MPI and RU Nijmegen, NL
Giada Guerra
Postdoctoral Researcher, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Boukje Habets
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Anke Hammer
Psychologist and Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Kasia Chyl
Postdoctoral researcher, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
Manli Zhang
Postdoctoral researcher, Hongkong University
Kiki van der Heijden
Postdoctoral researcher, Donders Insitute for Brain Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen, NL
Roef Janssen
Content developer Kind en Jeugd / Triage psycholoog, Embloom, NL
Tieme Janssen
Assistant professor, VU University Amsterdam, NL
Sara Mazzini
PHD student MPI and RU Nijmegen
Inge Timmers
Associate Professor Tilburg University
Maaike Vandermosten
Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium
Gonny Willems
Managing Director – Studio Europa, Maastricht, NL
Gojko Žarić
Data analyst, Booking.com, Amsterdam, NL
Linda Romanovska
Postdoctoral researcher, Luxemburg University, Luxemburg
In memoriam: Leo Blomert (1952 – 2012)
Leo Blomert has been the founding chair of the Cognitive Neuroscience Department at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience… read more