Ph.D. students with completed doctoral dissertations

Dorothee Chwilla (co-promoter; May 1996). “The lexical processing nature of the N400 priming effect” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: German
Current position: Assistant Professor, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen

Tamara Swaab (co-promoter; June 1996). “The functional locus of comprehension deficits in aphasia: An electrophysiological approach” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Associate Professor, Center for Mind and Brain, Department of Linguistics, University of California

Miranda van Turennout (co-promoter; November 1997). “The electrophysiology of speaking: Investigations on the time course of semantic, syntactic, and phonological processing” (Radboud University of Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Staff researcher at the Ministry of Law (Openbaar Ministerie), The Hague.

Lea Hald (November 2002). “The integration of semantic versus world knowledge during on-line sentence comprehension” (University of Arizona).
Nationality: American
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Donders Centre for Cognition (Radboud University Nijmegen);  EEG Research Consultant, Canterbury Christ Church University.

Daniëlle van den Brink (January 2004). “Contextual influences on spoken-word processing. An electrophysiological approach” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen

Marlies Wassenaar (March 2005). “Agrammatic comprehension: An electrophysiological approach.” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: teacher

Oliver Müller (January 2006). “Retrieving semantic and syntactic word properties. ERP studies on the time course in language comprehension” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: German
Current position: Professor at Universidad del Rosario, Escuela de medicina y ciencias de la salud, Colombia.

Valesca Kooijman (October 2007). “Continuous-speech segmentation at the beginning of language acquisition. Electrophysiological evidence” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Research coordinator Top Institute Food & Nutrition, Wageningen.

Floris de Lange (March 2008). “Neural mechanisms of motor imagery” (Radboud University Nijmegen, cum laude).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Junior Principal Investigator, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen

Ali Mazaheri (October 2008). “The influence of ongoing oscillatory brain activity on evoked responses and behaviour” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Canadian
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam.

Roel Willems (January 2009). “Neural reflections of meaning in gesture, language, and action” (Radboud University Nijmegen, cum laude).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Senior researcher, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Giosue Baggio (2009). “Semantics and the electrophysiology of meaning. Tense, aspect, event structure” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Italian
Current position: Research fellow at SISSA, International School for Advanced Studies, Cognitive Neuroscience (Trieste, Italy).

Nina Davids (2009). “Neurocognitive markers of phonological processing: a clinical perspective” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Senior researcher at Royal Dutch Kentalis, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands

Esther Aarts (2009). “Resisting temptation. The role of the anterior cingulate cortex in adjusting cognitive control” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Post-doctoral research fellow, University of California at Berkeley

Judith Pijnacker (2010). “Defeasible inference in autism: a behavioral and electrophysiogical approach” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Jonathan Levy (2010). “In cerebro unveiling unconscious mechanisms during reading” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: French
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Tineke Snijders (2010). “More than words: neural and genetic dynamics of syntactic unification” (Radboud University Nijmegen, cum laude).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University and University Medical Centre Utrecht

Laura Menenti (2010). “Differential hemispheric contributions to language production and comprehension in context” (Radboud University Nijmegen, cum laude).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow

Hanneke van Dijk  (2010). “The state of the brain, how alpha oscillations shape behaviour and event related responses” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher; MEG researcher at the Institute for Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Düsseldorf, Germany

René Scheeringa (2011). “On the relation between oscillatory EEG activity and the BOLD signal” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

Ian Fitzpatrick (2011). ”Lexical interactions in non-native speech comprehension: Evidence from electro-encephalography, eye-tracking, and functional magnetic resonance imaging” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: British
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher  at the Institut für Sprache und Information at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Marieke van der Linden (2011). “Experience-based cortical plasticity in object category representation”.( Radboud University Nijmegen)
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: maternity leave

Tessa van Leeuwen  (2011). ‘How one can see what is not there’: Neural mechanisms of grapheme-colour synaesthesia. (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Lin Wang  (2011). “The influence of information structure on language comprehension: A neurocognitive perspective” (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Nationality: Chinese
Current position: Assistant Professor in the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

Caroline Junge (2011). “The relevance of early word recognition: insights from the infant brain” (Radboud University Nijmegen) Nationality: Dutch
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leiden

Katrien Segaert (2012) "Structuring language: Contributions to the neurocognition of syntax" (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Nationality: Belgian
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Huadong Xiang (2012) "The language networks of the brain"
Nationality: Chinese
Current position: President of the 66nao company for the application of brain science, Beijing.

Kirsten Weber (2012) "The language learning brain: Evidence from second language learning and bilingual studies of syntactic processing"
Nationality: German
Current position: Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA.

Current Ph.D. students

Cathelijne Tesink (2003)
Nationality: Dutch
Project: The neurobiology of language in Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Miriam Kos (2006)
Nationality: Dutch
Project: The P600 and the interface between syntax and semantics.

Jana Bašnáková (2007)
Nationality: Slowakian
Project: The neurobiology of Gricean pragmatics.

Julia Uddén (2007)
Nationality: Swedish
Project: Artifical Grammar Learning and the brain.

Barbara Wagensveld (2007)
Nationality: Dutch
Project: Neural correlates of the acquisition of phonological skills.

Irina Simanova (2008)
Nationality: Russian
Project: Decoding concepts in the brain (Brain Computer Interface)

Sarah Dolscheid (2009)
Nationality: German
Project: The interface between language and cognition.

Salomi Asaridou (2010)
Nationality: Greek
Project: Changes in the neural infrastructure (white matter, grey matter) in relation to experience in music and language.

Jolien Francken (2011)
Nationality: Dutch
Project: The enlanguagement of perception and action.

Flora Vanlangendonck (2011)
Nationality: Belgian
Project: Audience design.

Izabela Mikula (2011)
Nationality: Polish
Project: Decoding contextual effects on language (Brain Computer Interface).

David Peeters (2011)
Nationality: Dutch
Project: Language and gesture.