Dr S.M. Brouwer (Susanne)

As a psycholinguist, I aim to understand how challenging (listening) conditions (e.g., foreign accents, dialects, being bilingual, background noise) influence communication and moral decision making. In my work I have mostly approached this question by looking at the interaction between linguistic and cognitive processes. Over the years, my investigations have also convinced me that the study of language is most insightful when using a broad range of offline and online methods with diverse populations.

The following three research lines illustrate the scope of my work.
1) Predictive processing in various populations
2) Speech processing in challenging listening conditions
3) The role of linguistic and cognitive factors in moral decision making