Peter Hagoort is director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (since November 2006), and the founding director of the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (1999), a cognitive neuroscience research centre at the Radboud University Nijmegen, with participation of the Universities of Twente, Leiden,  Maastricht and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. In addition, he is professor in cognitive neuroscience at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His own research interests relate to the domain of the human language faculty and how it is instantiated in the brain. In his research he applies neuroimaging techniques such as ERP, MEG, PET and fMRI to investigate the language system and its impairments as in aphasia, dyslexia and autism. At the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (former F.C. Donders Centre), Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, he is currently heading the research group Neurocognition of Language. At the Max Planck Institute he is heading a department on the neurobiology of language. For his scientific contributions, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts Sciences (KNAW) awarded him with the Hendrik Mullerprijs in 2003. In 2004 he was awarded by the Dutch Queen with the "Knighthood of the Dutch Lion". In 2005 he received the NWO-Spinoza Price (M€ 1.5). In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow. In 2008 he was awarded the Senior Heymans Prize. Peter Hagoort is fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Six relevant publications

 
Koten Jr, J.W., Wood, G., Hagoort, P., Goebel, R., Propping, P., Willmes, K. &  Boomsma, D.I. (2009). Genetic contribution to variation in cognitive function: an fMRI study in twins. Science, 323, 1737.

Hagoort, P. (2005). On Broca, brain, and binding: a new framework. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 416-423.

Hagoort, P. Hald, L., Bastiaansen, M., & Petersson, K-M. (2004). Integration of word meaning and world knowledge in language comprehension. Science, 304, 438-441.

Hagoort, P., Wassenaar, M., & Brown, C (2003). Real-time semantic compensation in patients with agrammatic comprehension: electrophysiological evidence for multiple-route plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 4340-4345.

Indefrey, P., Brown, C.M., Hellwig, F., Amunts, K., Herzog, H., Rüdiger, J.S., & Hagoort, P. (2001). A neural correlate of syntactic encoding during speech production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 5933-5936.

Van Turennout, M., Hagoort, P., & Brown, C. (1998). Brain activity during speaking: From syntax to phonology in 40 milliseconds. Science, 280, 572-574.