The focus of our research group is to understand the computational principles and mechanisms that underlie the representation and processing of human language. Our aim is to develop a theory about how the brain generates human language that is based on principles from across the language sciences, the cognitive and computational sciences, and neuroscience—and to do so in a way that stays faithful to the constraints on neural computation, to the formal properties of language, and to human behavior.
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
Research group
Research group information
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Principal Investigator
Post docs
- Cas Coopmans
- Anna Mai
- Jinbiao Yang
PhD Candidates
- Rong Ding
- Filiz Tezcan Semerci
- Julia Chauvet
- Edoardo Gornetti
- Mi Tang (visiting PhD student)
Research Project Coordinator
- Noémie te Rietmolen
- Weissbart, H. & Martin, A. E. (2024). The Structure and Statistics of Language jointly shape Cross-frequency Dynamics during Spoken Language Comprehension. Nature Communications. advanced publication doi:10.1101/2023.10.06.561087.
- Tezcan, F., Weissbart, H., & Martin, A. E. (2023). A tradeoff between acoustic and linguistic feature encoding in spoken language comprehension. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.82386
- Coopmans, C. W., Kaushik, K., & Martin, A. E. (2023). Hierarchical structure in language and action: A formal comparison. Psychological Review. doi:10.1037/rev0000429.
- Ten Oever, S., Kaushik, K., & Martin, A. E. (2022). Inferring the nature of linguistic computations in the brain. PLoS Computational Biology. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010269.
- Martin, A. E. (2020). A compositional neural architecture for language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(8), 1407-1427. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01552.
- Martin, A. E. (2016). Language processing as cue integration: Grounding the psychology of language in perception and neurophysiology. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 120. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00120.
- 2021 Lise Meitner Research Group "Language and Computation in Neural Systems" (Max Planck Society; 2021-2026)
- 2020 Max Planck Independent Research Group: This 5-year program is the main funding to set up the "Language and Computation in Neural Systems" (Max Planck Society; 2020-2024; converted to Lise Meitner Group)
- 2019 Aspasia Research Grant (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- 2018 VIDI Research Grant (NWO, 2019-2024) “The rhythms of computation: A combinatorial mechanism for language production and comprehension"
Contact information
Location
024-3610651
Postal address
Postbus 91016500HB NIJMEGEN