Antje Meyer

Antje Susanne Meyer (born December 15, 1957 in Hemer ) is a German psychologist , professor at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen.

Career

Meyer studied psychology, philosophy and English at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1984 to 1988 she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, where she received her doctorate in 1988. She then moved to the USA, took part in the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Arizona and did research as a postdoc at the Psychology Department of the University of Rochester in New York. From 1989 to 1992 she worked at the Psychology Department at Radboud University Nijmegen . She then moved back to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. From 2000 to 2009 she was a lecturer and then professor of psycholinguistics at the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham in UK.

Since 2009 she has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and Professor for Individual Differences in Language Processes at the Institute for Social Sciences at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen .

research

Meyer is an experimental psychologist, psycholinguist and a pioneer in the field of language production and processing. She was one of the first researchers to study how people combine absorbing new information with formulating words or sounds while describing events. She examines how people use language in different contexts, such as: B. in everyday dialogue, and how you can listen and plan your own statements at the same time. She is interested in how and why people differ in their language skills and habits and to what extent individual differences in language style and language skills depend on general cognitive skills and intelligence or a specific language ability . The results of their research are used to develop language tests and teaching materials.

Awards

• since 2018 member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
• since 2018 member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• since 2009 Scientific member of the Max Planck Society
• 1990 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Web links

• Antje Meyer at Google Scholar
• Antje Meyer on the website of the Max Planck Society
• Antje Meyer on the website of Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Antje Susanne Meyer: Phonological Encoding in Language Production - A Priming Study. Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, accessed on March 23, 2020 (Proefschrift [dissertation]). 
2. ^ Willem JM Levelt, Ardi Roelofs, Antje S. Meyer: A theory of lexical access in speech production. In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22, 1999, doi : 10.1017 / S0140525X99001776 .
3. ^ Members. Retrieved March 7, 2020 . 
4. ↑ KNAW kiest 21 nieuwe leden - KNAW. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .