The PI-group investigates how languages act and interact in the brain of monolinguals and multilinguals at lexical, morphosyntactic, and semantic levels.
By studying the acquisition, processing, control, and attrition of languages during the life-span, (psycho)linguistic mechanisms underlying monolingual and multilingual language use are clarified. Behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging methods are applied to inform (non-)computational models of language use (such as BIA+ and MULTILINK), and to relate multilingual theories to monolingual theories.
Special attention is paid to societally-relevant topics, such as foreign language learning, (word) translation, and the relation between embodiedness and emotion to language use by monolinguals and multilinguals.