Peter Hagoort

Biographic Data

ID1463591
NAMEPeter Hagoort
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEHagoort
SIGNATUREHAGOORT P
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0001-7280-7549
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Beat gestures and prosodic prominence interactively influence language comprehension

    Open AccessAmbra Ferrari, Peter HagoortARTICLECognition2025

    Face-to-face communication is not only about 'what' is said but also 'how' it is said, both in speech and bodily signals. Beat gestures are rhythmic hand movements that typically accompany prosodic prominence in conversation. Yet, it is still unclear how beat gestures influence language comprehension. On the one hand, beat gestures may share the same functional role of focus markers as prosodic prominence. Accordingly, they would drive attention …

  • Fodor, Bruner and Beyond

    Open AccessPeter Hagoort, Rocco GaudenziARTICLEHuman Arenas2025

    This article presents an in-depth conversation with Peter Hagoort, a leading cognitive neuroscientist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The interview explores the contrasting paradigms of Jerry Fodor and Jerome Bruner, focusing on their differing conceptions of the mind, including modularity, perception, and the role of cognitive processes. Hagoort reflects on Fodor’s modularity theory and Bruner’s New Look in Percep…

  • Lexical Processing Strongly Affects Reading Times But Not Skipping During Natural Reading

    Open AccessMicha Heilbron, Jorie van Haren et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2023

    In a typical text, readers look much longer at some words than at others, even skipping many altogether. Historically, researchers explained this variation via low-level visual or oculomotor factors, but today it is primarily explained via factors determining a word’s lexical processing ease, such as how well word identity can be predicted from context or discerned from parafoveal preview. While the existence of these effects is well established …

  • The language marker hypothesis

    Open AccessPeter HagoortARTICLECognition2023

  • Negative affect increases reanalysis of conflicts between discourse context and world knowledge

    Open AccessVicky T Lai, Jos J A Van Berkum et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2022

    Introduction Mood is a constant in our daily life and can permeate all levels of cognition. We examined whether and how mood influences the processing of discourse content that is relatively neutral and not loaded with emotion. During discourse processing, readers have to constantly strike a balance between what they know in long term memory and what the current discourse is about. Our general hypothesis is that mood states would affect this bala…

  • The state of the onion: Grammatical aspect modulates object representation during event comprehension

    Open AccessJulia Misersky, Ksenija Slivac et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Human Language: From Genes and Brains to Behavior

    Peter HagoortBOOKHuman Language2019

  • Primed From the Start: Syntactic Priming During the First Days of Language Learning

    Open AccessKirsten Weber, Morten H Christiansen et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning2019References: 56

    New linguistic information must be integrated into our existing language system. Using a novel experimental task that incorporates a syntactic priming paradigm into artificial language learning, we investigated how new grammatical regularities and words are learned. This innovation allowed us to control the language input the learner received, while the syntactic priming paradigm provided insight into the nature of the underlying syntactic proces…

  • The more, the better? Behavioral and neural correlates of frequent and infrequent vowel exposure

    Open AccessSho Tsuji, Paula Fikkert et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychobiology2017

    A central assumption in the perceptual attunement literature holds that exposure to a speech sound contrast leads to improvement in native speech sound processing. However, whether the amount of exposure matters for this process has not been put to a direct test. We elucidated indicators of frequency-dependent perceptual attunement by comparing 5-8-month-old Dutch infants' discrimination of tokens containing a highly frequent [hɪt-he:t] and a hig…

  • How Iconicity Helps People Learn New Words: Neural Correlates and Individual Differences in Sound-Symbolic Bootstrapping

    Open AccessGwilym Lockwood, Peter Hagoort et al.ARTICLECollabra2016

    Sound symbolism is increasingly understood as involving iconicity, or perceptual analogies and cross-modal correspondences between form and meaning, but the search for its functional and neural correlates is ongoing. Here we study how people learn sound-symbolic words, using behavioural, electrophysiological and individual difference measures. Dutch participants learned Japanese ideophones —lexical sound-symbolic words— with a translation of eith…

  • Speech Accommodation Without Priming: The Case of Pitch

    Tom Gijssels, Laura Staum Casasanto et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Processes2016Cited by: 5References: 21

    People often accommodate to each other's speech by aligning their linguistic production with their partner's. According to an influential theory, the Interactive Alignment Model, alignment is the result of priming. When people perceive an utterance, the corresponding linguistic representations are primed and become easier to produce. Here we tested this theory by investigating whether pitch (F0) alignment shows two characteristic signatures of pr…

  • Successful Word Recognition by 10‐Month‐Olds Given Continuous Speech Both at Initial Exposure and Test

    Open AccessCaroline Junge, Antony Cutler et al.ARTICLEInfancy2014

    Most words that infants hear occur within fluent speech. To compile a vocabulary, infants therefore need to segment words from speech contexts. This study is the first to investigate whether infants (here: 10‐month‐olds) can recognize words when both initial exposure and test presentation are in continuous speech. Electrophysiological evidence attests that this indeed occurs: An increased extended negativity (word recognition effect) appears for …

  • The Structural Connectivity Underpinning Language Aptitude, Working Memory, and IQ in the Perisylvian Language Network

    Open AccessHuadong Xiang, Dan Dediu et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning2012Cited by: 6References: 38

    In this article, we report the results of a study on the relationship between individual differences in language learning aptitude and the structural connectivity of language pathways in the adult brain, the first of its kind. We measured four components of language aptitude (vocabulary learning; sound recognition; sound-symbol correspondence; and grammatical inferencing) using the LLAMA language aptitude test. Spatial working memory, verbal work…

  • Prosodic Structure in Early Word Segmentation: ERP Evidence From Dutch Ten‐Month‐Olds

    Open AccessValesca Kooijman, Peter Hagoort et al.ARTICLEInfancy2009

    Recognizing word boundaries in continuous speech requires detailed knowledge of the native language. In the first year of life, infants acquire considerable word segmentation abilities. Infants at this early stage in word segmentation rely to a large extent on the metrical pattern of their native language, at least in stress‐based languages. In Dutch and English (both languages with a preferred trochaic stress pattern), segmentation of strong‐wea…

  • The Neural Integration of Speaker and Message

    Open AccessJos J A Van Berkum, Danielle van den Brink et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience2008

    When do listeners take into account who the speaker is? We asked people to listen to utterances whose content sometimes did not match inferences based on the identity of the speaker (e.g., “If only I looked like Britney Spears” in a male voice, or “I have a large tattoo on my back” spoken with an upper-class accent). Event-related brain responses revealed that the speaker's identity is taken into account as early as 200–300 msec after the beginni…

  • What We Cannot Learn From Neuroanatomy About Language Learning and Language Processing. Commentary on Uylings

    Open AccessPeter HagoortARTICLELanguage Learning2006

    Cognitive neuroscience aims at specifications of human cog-nition as instantiated in the human brain. This requires that information from multiple levels be taken into consideration and that information at one level be used to guide the investigations at another level. With regard to the human language faculty, linguis-tics specifies structural descriptions of the relevant knowledge types such as phonological, syntactic, and semantic structures. …

  • Anticipating Upcoming Words in Discourse: Evidence From ERPs and Reading Times.

    Jos J A Van Berkum, C Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental…2005

    The authors examined whether people can use their knowledge of the wider discourse rapidly enough to anticipate specific upcoming words as a sentence is unfolding. In an event-related brain potential (ERP) experiment, subjects heard Dutch stories that supported the prediction of a specific noun. To probe whether this noun was anticipated at a preceding indefinite article, stories were continued with a gender-marked adjective whose suffix mismatch…

  • On Broca, brain, and binding: A new framework

    Open AccessPeter HagoortARTICLETrends in Cognitive Sciences2005

  • Integration of Word Meaning and World Knowledge in Language Comprehension

    Open AccessPeter Hagoort, Lea Hald et al.ARTICLEScience2004

    Although the sentences that we hear or read have meaning, this does not necessarily mean that they are also true. Relatively little is known about the critical brain structures for, and the relative time course of, establishing the meaning and truth of linguistic expressions. We present electroencephalogram data that show the rapid parallel integration of both semantic and world knowledge during the interpretation of a sentence. Data from functio…

  • The Use of Referential Context and Grammatical Gender in Parsing: A Reply to Brysbaert and Mitchell (2000)

    Open AccessJos J A Van Berkum, Peter Hagoort et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…2000

  • Discourse Before Gender: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study on the Interplay of Semantic and Syntactic Information During Spoken Language Understanding

    Open AccessC Brown, Colin M Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…2000Cited by: 1References: 17

  • Semantic Integration in Sentences and Discourse: Evidence from the N400

    Open AccessJos J A Van Berkum, Peter Hagoort et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience1999

    In two ERP experiments we investigated how and when the language comprehension system relates an incoming word to semantic representations of an unfolding local sentence and a wider discourse. In Experiment 1, subjects were presented with short stories. The last sentence of these stories occasionally contained a critical word that, although acceptable in the local sentence context, was semantically anomalous with respect to the wider discourse (e…

  • Gender Electrified: ERP Evidence on the Syntactic Nature of Gender Processing

    Open AccessPeter Hagoort, Colin M BrownARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…1999Cited by: 5References: 15

  • The Time Course of Grammatical and Phonological Processing During Speaking: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials

    Open AccessMiranda Van Turennout, Peter Hagoort et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…1999Cited by: 2References: 43

  • When Does Gender Constrain Parsing? Evidence from ERPs

    Open AccessJos J A Van Berkum, Colin M Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…1999Cited by: 4References: 18