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Professor Dr

Antje S. Meyer

Year of election: 2018
Section: Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
City: Nijmegen
Country: Netherlands
CV Antje S. Meyer - English (PDF)
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Research

Research Priorities: Psychology of language, conversation, individual differences on processes of speech and comprehension, attention

Antje Meyer is an experimental psychologist and psycholinguist. She researches several aspects of the psychology of language. She investigates how humans employ language in various contexts (for example in every-day dialogues) as well as how and why humans differ in their verbal abilities and habits.

Together with a team of psychologists, cognitive scientists, and linguists, she researches how humans comprehend written or spoken statements and the way they write and speak. A central question is how speakers use language in naturally occurring conversations. How can people listen and at the same time prepare for a response? How do people attune themselves to a conversation, when, for example, they adjust to speakers with an uncommon dialect or when they adapt the tempo of their speech. Another main question of the team is how individual differences in language style and ability develop: do they correspond to general cognitive abilities and intelligence or is there additionally a specific linguistic talent?

To answer these questions, Antje Meyer’s team applies a broad spectrum of methods, amongst them the analysis of everyday conversations, computer simulations, behavioural experiments, surveys of individual differences, as well as neurobiological techniques. Even if Antje Meyer is concerned with fundamental research, many of her insights have a practical use, such as the development of language tests or teaching materials.

Career

  • since 2009 Director, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • since 2009 Professor of Individual Difference in Language Processing, Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 2003-2009 Professor of Psycholinguistics, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 2000-2003 Reader in Psycholinguistics, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 1992-1999 Research Associate Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 1989-1992 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Psychology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
  • Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
  • 1988 PhD, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 1987-1988 Research Associate, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 1984-1987 Doctoral Candidate, Max-Planck Institute für Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • Studies in Psychology, Philosophy and English Philology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Functions

  • since 2019 Steering Committee, Experimental Psychology Society, UK
  • Advisory Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
  • Advisory Editor, Journal of Memory and Language
  • Co-Editor, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Projects

  • 2011-2017 Co-Applicant, Project “The Automatic Temporal Measurement of linguistic Utterances in German, English, and Dutch: Development of Software for Experimental Psycholinguists“ („Die automatische zeitliche Vermessung sprachlicher Äußerungen im Deutschen, Englischen und Niederländischen: Entwicklung einer Software für experimentelle Psycholinguisten“), German Research Council (DFG), Germany
  • 1999-2002 Member, Subproject “A psycholinguistic Model on the Production of Grammatically Complex Utterances in the Local-Connectionist Paradigm“ („Ein psycholinguistisches Modell zur Produktion grammatikalisch komplexer Äußerungen im lokal-konnektionistischen Paradigma“), Priority Programmes (SPP) 1022, DFG, Germany
  • 1997-2000 Applicant, Subproject “Numerus and Gender Congruence in Language Production: On the Role of syntactic and conceptual Influences („Numerus- und Genuskongruenz in der Sprachproduktion: Zur Rolle syntaktischer und konzeptueller Einflüsse“), SPP 1022, DFG, Germany

Honours and Memberships

  • since 2018 Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany
  • since 2018 Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands
  • since 2014 Member, Academia Europaea
  • since 2009 Scientific Member, Max-Planck Society, Munich, Germany
  • 1990 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize, DFG, Germany

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