In our Psycholinguistics department, we study how people process, use, and learn (a first, second, third…) language. More specifically, we look at topics like plasticity in speech processing; relations between language and other cognitive abilities like attention; the neurobiology of language and neurovariability; the cognition of bilingualism; the role and (neuro)cognitive mechanisms of nonverbal vocal behaviour and gesture in communication; the computational neurobiology of language; and cognitive factors in language evolution.
For this, we use cutting-edge experimental, (neuro)physiological, computational modeling and brain imaging techniques from cognitive neuroscience.
