Angela D. Friederici

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Angela Friederici giving a lecture as part of her endowed professorship in Mainz, May 2010

Angela Dorkas Friederici (born February 3, 1952 in Cologne ) is a German neuropsychologist and director of the neuropsychology department at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Neurosciences in Leipzig. She has been Vice President of the Max Planck Society since June 5, 2014 .

Life

From 1970 to 1976 she studied German , Romance languages , linguistics and psychology in Bonn and Lausanne ( Switzerland ) . After studying German , she did her doctorate in 1976 at the University of Bonn. Your 1975-1980 then studying psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn she graduated with a diploma from.

After research stays at the Department of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA), Department of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine (USA), Université René Descartes , Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale in Paris and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Netherlands) habilitation them in 1986 at the University of Giessen and in 1989 became a professor of the Department of Psychology with a focus on cognitive science at the Free University of Berlin called. In 1991 she turned down an offer from the Philipps University of Marburg .

Since 1994 she has been founding director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Neuropsychological Research in Leipzig (today Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Neurosciences ). From 1996 to 2007 she was director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Leipzig University . She holds honorary professorships at the University of Leipzig (psychology), the University of Potsdam (linguistics) and the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (medicine). She is a member of well-known national and international scientific academies and advisory boards.

Her research mainly concerns the neurocognition of language and language acquisition . 2018, it presented studies that the theory of universal grammar of Noam Chomsky support first empirically.

Research priorities

  • Neurocognition of language
  • Neural basis of language processing
  • Neurobiology of Language Acquisition

Awards and memberships

Other functions

  • 1982–1985: Max Planck Society : Member of the Scientific Council
  • 2002–2009: Max Planck Society: Member of the Senate
  • 2006–2009: Max Planck Society: Chairwoman of the Scientific Council
  • 1994–1998: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences : Member of the board
  • 2005–2007: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Vice President
  • 1996–2001: German Research Foundation : Member of the Senate
  • 2003–2010: Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF ): Member of the Health Research Council
  • 2011–2012: Einstein Foundation Berlin : Deputy Chairwoman of the Scientific Commission
  • since 2012: Einstein Foundation Berlin: Chair of the Scientific Commission
  • since 2014: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Member of the board
  • since 2014: Max Planck Society: Vice President

Works

  • with RC Berwick, N. Chomsky , JJ Bolhuis: Evolution, brain and the nature of language. In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17, 2013, pp. 89-98.
  • with H.-A. Jeon: Two principles of organization in the prefrontal cortex are cognitive hierarchy and degree of automaticity. In: Nature Communications 4: 2041, 2013. doi : 10.1038 / ncomms3041
  • The cortical language circuit: From auditory perception to sentence comprehension. In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences 16, 2012, pp. 262-268.
  • The brain basis of language processing: From structure to function. In: Physiological Reviews 91, 2011, pp. 1357-1392.
  • The neural basis of language development and its impairment. In: Neuron 52, 2006, pp. 941-952.
  • Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing. In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6, 2002, pp. 78-84.
  • You absolutely have to be careful not to get carried away with giving answers even though you haven't got them yet - in Matthias EckoldtCan the brain understand the brain? ", Carl-Auer-Verlag , 2013

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. The team around Martin Stratmann MPG-Info from June 5, 2014
  2. Stefanie Kara: Universal grammar: "I think that he thinks that ..." In: ZEIT ONLINE . April 25, 2018 ( zeit.de [accessed on May 2, 2018]).
  3. Member entry by Prof. Dr. Angela D. Friederici (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 6, 2016.