Dr S.M. Brouwer (Susanne)

Susanne Brouwer is an assistant professor in Psycholinguistics and a statistical consultant. She obtained her PhD on a dissertation exploring how reduced words like "yesterday" pronounced as "yesay" are recognized during everyday communication.

Following her PhD, Brouwer investigated how background noise influences everyday communication at Northwestern University. Subsequently, she studied prediction during everyday communication in bilingual adults and children at the University of Groningen and Utrecht University. She then focused on how visual language, such as gestures and hand movements, is utilized during everyday communication at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Brouwer's primary research goal is to unravel the intricate interplay between language, cognition, and emotion. Specifically, she explores how everyday communication, encompassing the dynamic relationship among the speaker (e.g., foreign accents), the listener (e.g., bilingualism), and the environment (e.g., background noise), impacts (1) moral decision-making and (2) speech comprehension. A hallmark of her research lies in an interdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from Linguistics and Psychology. For her research contributions, Brouwer received the Radboud Science Award.

At Radboud University, Brouwer teaches in the Bachelor's program Dutch Language and Culture, the Master's program Language and Communication Sciences, and the Master's program Education in Language and Cultural Studies. She has been honored with the Radboud Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts and serves as chair of the program committee for Dutch Language and Culture.

Brouwer served as an associate editor for the journal Applied Psycholinguistics. Currently, she is an associate editor for the journal Frontiers in Language Sciences. Her most recent contribution is a special issue in that journal titled "Communication, Behavior, and Emotion in Multilingual Societies."

• Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Multilingualism