Research
- I'm interested in the underlying mechanisms of on-line sentence processing, and how children learn adult-like sentence processing.
- I combine cognitive modeling (computational simulations of cognitive processes) with experimental studies to test the predictons of these models.
- I'm interested in how to analyze time course data.
Current project(s)
NWO Veni
Learning language from expectations
What pronouns such as “he" or “she" refer to, changes from sentence to sentence. This project applies the learning theory of Rescorla and Wagner to the acquisition of pronouns. The central idea behind this theory is that children learn from incorrect predictions. The project will combine experiments, corpus research and computational modelling.
Data Science project (RIS / Digital Humanities)
Automatic Processing of Eye Tracking Movies
PhD students
- Dorothée Hoppe. Project: How do we learn the moon is female after all? The role of sequential and distributional properties in linguistic category learning. Co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Petra Hendriks.
- Abby Toth. Project: The investigation of children’s discourse processing using experimental studies and computational simulations. Other supervisors: Prof. Dr. Niels Taatgen and Prof. Dr. Petra Hendriks.
- Mark Ji. Primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Niels Taatgen.