Milene Bonte
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Milene Bonte

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Milene is professor Cognitive Neuroscience of Language and Literacy Development at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University (UM). She has a background in Psychology (MSc, UM and Konstanz University) and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience of dyslexia and speech perception (PhD, 2005, UM). In 2004 she was visiting fellow at Helsinki University of Technology. In 2007 she received an NWO Veni grant to investigate developmental changes in the neural basis of speech and voice perception. Her team in the MBIC Brain & Language lab uses behavioural, EEG and fMRI measures as well as gamification to understand and predict individual differences in language and reading development (Marie-Curie ITN, NWO Vidi, NWO Vici and NRO funding).

This research is performed in close collaboration with professionals in education and dyslexia healthcare (e.g., Rudolf Berlin Center, RID). Milene is co-author of the Dutch protocol for diagnosis and treatment of dyslexia (PDDB 3.0) and the UNESCO MGIEP ISEE Assessment. She regularly gives scientific and general/professional audience presentations and has served in various scientific and societal boards, including current memberships of the board of directors of the Nederlands Kwaliteitsinstituut Dyslexie, advisory group BVRD, and the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen .