Andrea E. Martin

Andrea E. Martin is a Lise Meitner Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and a Principal Investigator at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN) at Radboud University. She leads the Language and Computation in Neural Systems group, which investigates how linguistic structure and meaning are represented and processed in biological and artificial neural systems.

Her research integrates psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and computational modeling to develop mechanistic accounts of (spoken) language comprehension and production. A central aim of her work is to understand how formal properties of language—such as constituency and compositionality—can emerge from, and be implemented in, temporally dynamic neural systems. This approach bridges symbolic and neural perspectives and uses naturalistic language, neuroimaging, and formal modeling to advance theory-building in cognitive science.

Martin received a BA in Cognitive Science from Hampshire College (2004), and an MA (2006) and PhD (2010) in Experimental Psychology from New York University. She has held positions at the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain, and Language, the University of Edinburgh, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics prior to establishing her independent research group. Her work has been funded by the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VIDI and Aspasia), the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPRG and the Lise Meitner Excellence Programme), and the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant DYNALANG).

Further information is available at lacns.github.io and www.andreaemartin.com

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