Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort (born January 19, 1954 in Oudewater ) is a Dutch neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of language.
Hagoort studied psychology and biology at Utrecht University and experimental psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen , where he received his doctorate in 1990. Then he was project manager at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. Since 1999 he has been a professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (at the Institute for Cognition and Computer Science, NICI) and in Nijmegen founding director (1999) of the Donders Institute (Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, DCCN) and also director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (since 2006).
He uses imaging techniques like PET , MEG and functional MRI to study language processing in the brain. For example, he investigated how patients with language disorders (such as those with aphasia , dyslexia , autism ) compensate for them in other ways. He studied the processes of speaking and found that test persons already know the grammatical form of a word around 40 milliseconds earlier than the first syllable and that another 120 milliseconds pass before the complete pronunciation is ready.
He is also concerned with the interlocking of linguistic functions with others (such as gestures), and also examined other cognitive skills and the social implications of cognitive neuroscience.
In 2005 he received the Spinoza Prize and in 2008 the Heymans Prize. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). In 2003 he received the Hendrik Muller Prize of the KNAW and in 2012 became Academy Professor of the KNAW. In 2004 he became a knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. He is an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow and a member of the Academia Europaea . In 2018, Hagoort was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- Peter Hagoort, Lea Hald, Marcel Bastiaansen, Karl Magnus Petersson: Integration of Word Meaning and World Knowledge in Language Comprehension. In: Science. Volume 304, 2004, pp. 438-441.
- RM Willems, A. Özyürek, P. Hagoort: When language meets action: The neural integration of gesture and speech. In: Cerebral Cortex. Volume 17, 2007, pp. 2322-2333.
- P. Hagoort, WJM Levelt: The speaking brain. In: Science. Volume 326, 2009, pp. 372-373.
- L. Menenti, SME Gierhan, K. Segaert, P. Hagoort: Shared language: Overlap and segregation of the neuronal infrastructure for speaking and listening revealed by functional MRI. In: Psychological Science. Volume 22, 2011, pp. 1173-1182.
- R. Scheeringa, P. Fries, KM Petersson, R. Oostenveld, I. Grothe, DG Norris, MC Bastiaansen u. a .: Neuronal dynamics underlying high- and low-frequency EEG oscillations contribute independently to the human BOLD signal. In: Neuron. Volume 69, 2011, pp. 572-558.
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| SURNAME | Hagoort, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch neuroscientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oudewater |