Peter Hagoort

Presentations

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  • Giglio, L., Ostarek, M., Sharoh, D., & Hagoort, P. (2022). Neural correlates of syntactic processing in narrative production and comprehension. Poster presented at the 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain and Cognition, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Giglio, L., Ostarek, M., Sharoh, D., & Hagoort, P. (2022). Neural correlates of syntactic processing in narrative production and comprehension. Poster presented at the IMPRS Conference 2022, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
  • Giglio, L., Hagoort, P., Sharoh, D., & Ostarek, M. (2022). Diverging neural dynamics of syntactic structure building in naturalistic speaking and listening. Talk presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2022). Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2022-10-06 - 2022-10-08.
  • Hagoort, P. (2022). Brain networks for human language and communication [invited talk]. Talk presented at the Neurokolloquium 2022, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg. Freiburg, Germany. 2022-05-18.
  • Hagoort, P. (2022). Het belang van handschrift en schrijfvaardigheid [invited talk]. Talk presented at Handschriftonderwijs Symposium: Schrijf je Wijs. Gouda, The Netherlands. 2022-04-08.
  • Hagoort, P. (2022). Language beyond the input given: A neurobiological account [invited talk]. Talk presented at the Second Cognition Academy. online. 2022-04-06.
  • Hagoort, P. (2022). Milete as the cradle of scientific thinking: The role of Anaximander [invited talk]. Talk presented at Milete. Balat, Turkey. 2022-08-30.
  • Hagoort, P. (2022). Taal verandert je wereldbeeld / Hoe werkt taal? [invited talk]. Talk presented at NEMO Kennislink. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2022-09-06.
  • Hagoort, P. (2022). The brain’s infrastructure for human uniqueness [invited talk]. Talk presented at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Hung Hom, Hong Kong. 2022-05-25.
  • Hagoort, P. (2022). What is the brain doing here? [invited talk]. Talk presented at Symposium Spectroscopy of Solids and Interfaces, in honour of Theo Rasing, Radboud University. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2022-05-13.
  • Heilbron, M., Van Haren, J., Hagoort, P., & De Lange, F. (2022). Prediction and preview strongly affect reading times but not skipping in natural reading. Poster presented at the 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain and Cognition, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Hoeksema, N., Hagoort, P., & Vernes, S. C. (2022). Piecing together the building blocks of the vocal learning bat brain. Poster presented at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa, Japan.
  • Huizeling, E., Alday, P. M., Peeters, D., & Hagoort, P. (2022). Combining EEG and eye-tracking to investigate the prediction of upcoming speech in naturalistic virtual environments: A 3D visual world paradigm. Poster presented at the 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain and Cognition, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Huizeling, E., Alday, P. M., Peeters, D., & Hagoort, P. (2022). Combining EEG and eye-tracking to investigate the prediction of upcoming speech in naturalistic virtual environments: A 3D visual world paradigm. Poster presented at Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward II, online.
  • Mazzini, S., Holler, J., Hagoort, P., & Drijvers, L. (2022). Intra- and inter-brain synchrony during (un)successful face-to-face communication. Poster presented at the 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain and Cognition, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Mazzini, S., Holler, J., Hagoort, P., & Drijvers, L. (2022). Intra- and inter-brain synchrony during (un)successful face-to-face communication. Poster presented at Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward II, online.
  • Mazzini, S., Holler, J., Hagoort, P., & Drijvers, L. (2022). Intra- and inter-brain synchrony during (un)successful face-to-face communication. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2022), Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Poletiek, F. H., Aernoudt, A., De Luca, A., Hagoort, P., & Bocanegra, B. (2022). En-languagement of the senses. Can grammar influence sensory perception? The effect of combinatorial and non-combinatorial verbal labels in a visual search task. Talk presented at the 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain and Cognition. Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. 2022-04-28 - 2022-04-30.
  • Quaresima, A., Van den Broek, D., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2022). The Tripod neuron: a minimal model of dendric computation. Poster presented at Dendrites 2022: Dendritic anatomy, molecules and function, Heraklion, Greece.
  • Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Van den Broek, D., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2022). Dendritic NMDARs facilitate Up and Down states. Poster presented at Bernstein Conference 2022, Berlin, Germany.
  • Seijdel, N., Schoffelen, J. M., Hagoort, P., & Drijvers, L. (2022). Using RIFT to study the role of lower frequency oscillations in sensory processing and audiovisual integration. Poster presented at Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward II, Nijmegen, NL.
  • Seijdel, N., Schoffelen, J.-M., Hagoort, P., & Drijvers, L. (2022). Using RIFT to study the role of lower frequency oscillations in sensory processing and audiovisual integration. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2022), Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Seijdel, N., Schoffelen, J.-M., Hagoort, P., & Drijvers, L. (2022). Using RIFT to study the role of lower frequency oscillations in sensory processing and audiovisual integration. Poster presented at the IMPRS conference 2022, Nijmegen, NL.
  • Sharoh, D., Weber, K., Ruijters, L., Norris, D. G., & Hagoort, P. (2022). Neurobiology of linguistic compositionality as revealed by task-dependent connectivity in FMRI. Poster presented at the 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain and Cognition, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Slivac, K., Flecken, M., Van den Heuvel, M., Hervais-Adelman, A., & Hagoort, P. (2022). The effects of language on biological and general motion perception. Poster presented at the 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain and Cognition, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Takashima, A., Hintz, F., McQueen, J. M., Meyer, A. S., & Hagoort, P. (2022). The neuronal underpinnings of variability in language skills. Talk presented at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2022). Lille, France. 2022-08-29 - 2022-09-01.
  • Coopmans, C. W., De Hoop, H., Hagoort, P., & Martin, A. E. (2021). Cortical tracking and the relationship between structure and meaning. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2021), online.
  • Giglio, L., Ostarek, M., & Hagoort, P. (2021). Decoding the scope of planning in sentence production. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2021), online.
  • Giglio, L., Ostarek, M., & Hagoort, P. (2021). The neural correlates of spontaneous sentence production. Poster presented at the Leipzig Lectures on Language, End-of-Year Symposium, online.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Cognitieve neurowetenschap. Talk presented at the (online) symposium Filosofie en de Natuurwetenschappen. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2021-05-28.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Language beyond the input given: A neurobiological account (online lecture). Talk presented at the Max Planck School of Cognition Academy, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig, Germany. 2021-05-19.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The language ready brain [online lectures]. LOT Summer School 2021. Leuven, Belgium, 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-09.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The language ready brain: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of language processing. Talk presented at the International Conference on Language Cognitive Science (CLCS). online. 2021-06-05 - 2021-06-06.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The neuropragmatics of dialogue and discourse. Talk presented at the (online) workshop Dialogue, Memory and Emotion 2021 (DME 2021). Paris, France. 2021-05-20 - 2021-05-21.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Language doesn't exist [Schultink Lecture]. Talk presented at LOT Summer School 2021. Leuven, Belgium. 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-09.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Carving the neurobiology of language at its joints: The quest for natural kinds [distinguished career award lecture]. Talk presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2021). online. 2021-10-05 - 2021-10-08.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Requirements for brain and language informed digital tools. Talk presented at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, eLADDA project. online. 2021-03-09.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The neurobiology of language. Talk presented at CoBra lecture 2. online. 2021-03-23.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The neurobiology of language. Talk presented at CoBra lecture 3. online. 2021-03-26.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The neurobiology of language. Talk presented at CoBra lecture 1. online. 2021-03-22.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The patient – physician interaction as a placebo treatment. Talk presented at the Radboud University. online. 2021-04-22.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The relation between mind and brain. Talk presented at the Symposium Filosofie en de Natuurwetenschappen, Radboud University. online. 2021-05-28.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Carving the neurobiology of language at its joints: The quest for natural kinds [invited talk]. Talk presented at the MPI Lunch Talk. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2021-11-12.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Key components of the language ready brain: Memory, Unification, Control [lecture 1]. Talk presented at LOT Summer School 2021. Leuven, Belgium. 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-09.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Language doesn’t exist [invited talk]. Talk presented at the Language and Cognition Group (LACG) lab meeting. online. 2021-11-25.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Neuropragmatics: From language to communication [lecture 3]. Talk presented at LOT Summer School 2021. Leuven, Belgium. 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-09.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). On reducing language to biology [lecture 4]. Talk presented at LOT Summer School 2021. Leuven, Belgium. 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-09.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The brain’s infrastructure for human uniqueness [keynote]. Talk presented at the European University of Brain and Technology (NeurotechEU) summit. online. 2021-11-22.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The enlanguagement of brain and body [lecture 5]. Talk presented at LOT Summer School 2021. Leuven, Belgium. 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-09.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The listening and speaking brain [plenary talk]. Talk presented at The Building Blocks of Information Transfer in Language Processing Conference. Zagreb, Croatia. 2021-10-07 - 2021-10-08.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The neurobiology of language, Lecture 1. Talk presented at the Second Cognition Academy. online. 2021-05-19.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The neurobiology of language, Lecture 2. Talk presented at the Second Cognition Academy. online. 2021-05-19.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The neurobiology of pragmatics [invited talk]. Talk presented at the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021). online. 2021-12-06 - 2021-12-14.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). The toolkit of cognitive neuroscience [lecture 2]. Talk presented at LOT Summer School 2021. Leuven, Belgium. 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-09.
  • Hagoort, P. (2021). Variations on a theme in the neural infrastructure for language [keynote]. Talk presented at the 5th Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP5). Copenhagen, Denmark. 2021-08-25 - 2021-08-27.
  • Huizeling, E., Alday, P. M., Peeters, D., & Hagoort, P. (2021). Combining EEG and eye-tracking to investigate the prediction of upcoming speech in naturalistic virtual environments: a 3D visual world paradigm. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2021), online.
  • Sharoh, D., Weber, K., Ruijters, L., Norris, D., & Hagoort, P. (2021). Compositional meaning influences the BOLD response in language critical cortex via interaction between LIFG and LMTG. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2021), online.
  • Arana, S., Schoffelen, J.-M., Cichy, R., Hagoort, P., & Rabovsky, M. (2020). Multilevel representations of semantics. Poster presented at the 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLap 2020), Potsdam, Germany.
  • Giglio, L., Ostarek, M., Hagoort, P., & Weber, K. (2020). A production-comprehension asymmetry in the engagement of the language network for constituent structure building. Poster presented at the IMPRS conference 2020, online.
  • Giglio, L., Ostarek, M., Hagoort, P., & Weber, K. (2020). Production-comprehension asymmetries for constituent structure building in the language network. Poster presented at the Twelfth Annual (Virtual) Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2020).
  • Hagoort, P. (2020). Beyond the language given: Language processing from an embrained perspective [invited talk]. Talk presented at the C-STAR lecture series, University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC, USA. 2020-03-25.
  • Hagoort, P. (2020). Language beyond the input given: A neurobiological account. Talk presented at the Université Paris Descartes. Paris, France. 2020-03-06.
  • Hagoort, P. (2020). The core and beyond in the language ready brain. Talk presented at Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online. online. 2020-06-12.
  • Heidlmayr, K., Takashima, A., Hagoort, P., & Milivojevic, B. (2020). The neural correlates of schema-dependent representational geometries during naturalistic discourse: Text-based and experiential approaches. Poster presented at the Twelfth Annual (Virtual) Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2020).
  • Hodapp, A., Q Park, S., Hagoort, P., & Rabovsky, M. (2020). The role of dopamine for semantic prediction errors and adaptation as reflected in N400 amplitudes. Poster presented at the 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLap 2020), Potsdam, Germany.
  • Preisig, B., Riecke, L., Sjerps, M. J., Kösem, A., Kop, B., Bramson, B., Hagoort, P., & Hervais-Adelman, A. (2020). Phase difference of bilateral brain stimulation modulates interhemispheric connectivity during binaural integration. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2020), online.
  • Sharoh, D., Van Mourik, T., Bains, L., Segaert, K., Weber, K., & Hagoort, P. (2020). Laminar specific fMRI reveals directed interactions in distributed networks during language processing. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2020), online.
  • Arana, S., Marquand, A., Hulten, A., Hagoort, P., & Schoffelen, J.-M. (2019). Multiset canonical correlation analysis of MEG reveals stimulus-modality independent language areas. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM 2019), Rome, Italy.
  • Callaghan, E., Peeters, D., & Hagoort, P. (2019). Prediction: When, where & how? An investigation into spoken language prediction in naturalistic virtual environ-ments. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Coopmans, C. W., Martin, A. E., De Hoop, H., & Hagoort, P. (2019). The interpretation of noun phrases and their structure: Views from constituency vs. dependency grammars. Talk presented at the workshop 'Doing experiments with theoretical linguistics'. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2019-04-04.
  • Coopmans, C. W., Martin, A. E., De Hoop, H., & Hagoort, P. (2019). The interpretation of noun phrases and their structure: Views from constituency vs. dependency grammars. Poster presented at Crossing the Boundaries: Language in Interaction Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • Giglio, L., Hagoort, P., Federmeier, K. D., & Rommers, J. (2019). Memory benefits of expectation violations. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Giglio, L., Hagoort, P., Federmeier, K. D., & Rommers, J. (2019). Memory benefits of expectation violations. Poster presented at the Donders Discussions 2019, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • Hagoort, P. (2019). Far beyond the back of the brain. Talk presented at the Cambridge Chaucer Club of MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK. 2019-03-14.
  • Hagoort, P. (2019). Language beyond the input given: A neurobiological account. Talk presented at the Psychology Distinguished Speaker Series, at the University of California. Davis, CA, USA. 2019-05-02.
  • Hagoort, P. (2019). Swiebertje en de vrije wil. Talk presented at the Stadhuis in Oudewater. Oudewater, The Netherlands. 2019-02-06.
  • Hagoort, P. (2019). Waarom spiegelneuronen niet deugen. Talk presented at Berichten uit de bovenkamer, een KNAW symposium over hersenen en gedrag. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2019-05-13.
  • Hagoort, P. (2019). Which aspects of the brain make humans unique?. Talk presented at the MPI Lunch Talk. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2019-02-08.
  • Hagoort, P. (2019). Far beyond the back of the brain. Talk presented at the 3rd Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA 2019). Salzburg, Austria. 2019-07-11 - 2019-07-12.
  • Hagoort, P., & De Bruin, L. (2019). De sprekende aap. Hoe taal de mens bepaalt [podcast]| Gesprek met cognitiewetenschapper Peter Hagoort en cognitiefilosoof Leon de Bruin. Talk presented at Radboud Reflects i.s.m. Donders Institute. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2019-11-19.
  • Hagoort, P. (2019). Unification for 'on-the-fly' production and comprehension of language [narrated video]. Talk presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Compendium of the PostLab, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI. 2019-04-30.
  • Heidlmayr, K., Weber, K., Takashima, A., & Hagoort, P. (2019). Shared situation models between production and comprehension: fMRI evidence on the neurocognitive processes underlying the construction and sharing of representations in discourse. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Huizeling, E., Peeters, D., & Hagoort, P. (2019). Prediction of disfluent speech in naturalistic virtual environments: Eye-tracking evidence from a 3D visual world paradigm. Talk presented at the 17th NVP Winter Conference on Brain & Cognition. Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. 2019-12-19 - 2019-12-21.
  • Misersky, J., Wu, T., Slivac, K., Hagoort, P., & Flecken, M. (2019). The State of the Onion: Language specific structures modulate object representation in event comprehension. Talk presented at the Workshop Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL). Zurich, Switzerland. 2019-11-04 - 2019-11-05.
  • Misersky, J., Slivac, K., Hagoort, P., & Flecken, M. (2019). The State of the Onion: Grammatical aspect modulates object representation in event comprehension. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • Mongelli, V., Meijs, E. L., Van Gaal, S., & Hagoort, P. (2019). No language unification without neural feedback: How awareness affects combinatorial processes. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Rommers, J., Hagoort, P., & Federmeier, K. D. (2019). Lingering word expectations in recognition memory. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Schoffelen, J.-M., Oostenveld, R., Lam, N. H. L., Udden, J., Hulten, A., & Hagoort, P. (2019). MOUS, a 204-subject multimodal neuroimaging dataset to study language processing. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Slivac, K., Flecken, M., Hervais-Adelman, A., & Hagoort, P. (2019). Can language cue the visual detection of biological motion?. Poster presented at the 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2019), Tenerife, Spain.
  • Slivac, K., Hervais-Adelman, A., Hagoort, P., & Flecken, M. (2019). Can language cue the visual detection of biological motion?. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Tan, Y., & Hagoort, P. (2019). Catecholaminergic modulation of the semantic processing in sentence comprehension. Talk presented at the 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2019). Tenerife, Spain. 2019-09-25 - 2019-09-28.
  • Tan, Y., Lewis, A. G., & Hagoort, P. (2019). Catetholaminergic modulation of evoked power related to semantic processing. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Terporten, R., Kösem, A., Schoffelen, J.-M., Callaghan, E., Heidlmayr, K., Dai, B., & Hagoort, P. (2019). Alpha oscillations mark the interaction between language processing and cognitive control operations during sentence reading. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Araújo, S., Konopka, A. E., Meyer, A. S., Hagoort, P., & Weber, K. (2018). Effects of verb position on sentence planning. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production (IWLP 2018), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • Franken, M. K., Acheson, D. J., McQueen, J. M., Hagoort, P., & Eisner, F. (2018). Opposing and following responses in sensorimotor speech control: Why responses go both ways. Talk presented at Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF 2018). Ghent, Belgium. 2018-06-04 - 2018-06-05.

    Abstract

    When talking, speakers continuously monitor and use the auditory feedback of their own voice to control and inform speech production processes. Auditory feedback processing has been studied using perturbed auditory feedback. When speakers are provided with auditory feedback that is perturbed in real time, most of them compensate for this by opposing the feedback perturbation. For example, when speakers hear themselves at a higher pitch than intended, they would compensate by lowering their pitch. However, sometimes speakers follow the perturbation instead (i.e., raising their pitch in response to higher-than-expected pitch). Although most past studies observe some following responses, current theoretical frameworks cannot account for following responses. In addition, recent experimental work has suggested that following responses may be more common than has been assumed to date.
    In the current study, we performed two experiments (N = 39 and N = 24) to investigate whether the state of the speech production system at perturbation onset may determine what type of response (opposing or following) is given. Participants vocalized while they tried to match a target pitch level. Meanwhile, the pitch in their auditory feedback was briefly (500 ms) perturbed in half of the vocalizations, increasing or decreasing pitch by 25 cents. None of the participants were aware of these manipulations. Subsequently, we analyzed the pitch contour of the participants’ vocalizations.
    The results suggest that whether a perturbation-related response is opposing or following unexpected feedback depends on ongoing fluctuations of the production system: It initially responds by doing the opposite of what it was doing. In addition, the results show that all speakers show both following and opposing responses, although the distribution of response types varies across individuals.
    Both the interaction with ongoing fluctuations of the speech system and the non-trivial proportion of following responses suggest that current production models are inadequate: They need to account for why responses to unexpected sensory feedback depend on the production-system’s state at the time of perturbation. More generally, the current study indicates that looking beyond the average response can lead to a more complete view on the nature of feedback processing in motor control. Future work should explore whether the direction of feedback-based control in domains outside of speech production will also be conditional on the state of the motor system at the time of the perturbation.
  • Franken, M. K., Acheson, D. J., McQueen, J. M., Hagoort, P., & Eisner, F. (2018). Opposing and following responses in sensorimotor speech control: Why responses go both ways. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production (IWLP 2018), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

    Abstract

    When talking, speakers continuously monitor the auditory feedback of their own voice to control and inform speech production processes. When speakers are provided with auditory feedback that is perturbed in real time, most of them compensate for this by opposing the feedback perturbation. For example, when speakers hear themselves at a higher pitch than intended, they would compensate by lowering their pitch. However, sometimes speakers follow the perturbation instead (i.e., raising their pitch in response to higher-than-expected pitch). Current theoretical frameworks cannot account for following responses. In the current study, we performed two experiments to investigate whether the state of the speech production system at perturbation onset may determine what type of response (opposing or following) is given. Participants vocalized while the pitch in their auditory feedback was briefly (500 ms) perturbed in half of the vocalizations. None of the participants were aware of these manipulations. Subsequently, we analyzed the pitch contour of the participants’ vocalizations. The results suggest that whether a perturbation-related response is opposing or following unexpected feedback depends on ongoing fluctuations of the production system: It initially responds by doing the opposite of what it was doing. In addition, the results show that all speakers show both following and opposing responses, although the distribution of response types varies across individuals. Both the interaction with ongoing fluctuations and the non-trivial number of following responses suggest that current speech production models are inadequate. More generally, the current study indicates that looking beyond the average response can lead to a more complete view on the nature of feedback processing in motor control. Future work should explore whether the direction of feedback-based control in domains outside of speech production will also be conditional on the state of the motor system at the time of the perturbation.
  • Hagoort, P. (2018). The mapping from language in the brain to the language of the brain. Talk presented at the Athenian Symposia - Cerebral Instantiation of Memory. Pasteur Hellenic Institute, Athens, Greece. 2018-03-30 - 2018-03-31.
  • Hagoort, P. (2018). Beyond semantics proper [Plenary lecture]. Talk presented at the Conference Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Düsseldorf, Germany. 2018-09-12 - 2018-09-14.
  • Hagoort, P. (2018). On reducing language to biology. Talk presented at the Workshop Language in Mind and Brain. Munich, Germany. 2018-12-10 - 2018-12-11.
  • Hagoort, P. (2018). The language-ready brain. Talk presented at the NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste. Düsseldorf, Germany. 2018-09-26.

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