Robert J. Hartsuiker

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Rob Hartsuiker is interested in the architecture of the cognitive systems that underly language production and language comprehension. He has a particular interest in the generation of sentence structure in production, in the processes by which speakers monitor their own speech for errors and other problems, and in how such processes may differ in multilingualism.

Matthias Franken is interested in interactions between speech perception and speech production and the sense of agency over one’s speech production. His work involves altered auditory feedback manipulations, MEG, and EEG. He is funded by a Ghent University Special Research Fund grant to Andreas Lind and Robert Hartsuiker.

Aurélie Pistono studies disfluency in speech production and the relation between visual attention, speech production and hesitations. She uses eye-tracking and tests of individual differences. She is funded by a Marie Sklodowska Curie grant from the European Commission.

Merel Muylle (PhD May 2020) is interested in the acquisition of syntax in late second language learning. She combines artificial language learning with a structural priming paradigm.  She is funded by a  grant from the Fund for Research - Flanders (FWO) awarded to Rob Hartsuiker and Sarah Bernolet.

Chi Zhang

PhD student

email: chi.zhang@ugent.be

Chi Zhang is interested in syntactic encoding during language production, and the interaction between syntax, the lexicon, and other cognitive systems such as memory. He uses the structural priming paradigm to investigate these issues in Dutch, Mandarin, and Russian. He is funded by the China Scholarship Council.

Mieke Slim

PhD student

email: Mieke.Slim@ugent.be

Mieke Slim studies logical representations in sentence comprehension. She is particularly interested in scope ambiguities involving multiple quantifiers, such as ‘every hiker climbed a hill’ and whether such representations are shared among the languages in bilinguals. Her work involves logical form priming in comprehension. She is funded by the Fund for Research - Flanders (FWO).

Xuemei Chen works on predictive processing in sentence comprehension and production. She is particularly interested in the structural biases of verbs towards particular structures, and whether biases in the different languages of multilingual influence each other. Much of her work uses the visual-world eye-tracking  paradigm. She is funded by the China Scholarship Council.