Meet the team
Principal Investigator
Hans Rutger Bosker
Assistant Professor
Speech Perception, Audiovisual Integration, Prosody, Gestures, Lexical Stress, Speech Rate, Speech in Noise
Postdocs
Matteo Maran
Postdoctoral Researcher
Audiovisual Integration, Language-related ERPs, Neural Basis of Language Comprehension, Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Patrick Louis Rohrer
Postdoctoral Researcher
Gestures, Prosody, Gesture-Speech synchrony, Speech Perception, Audiovisual Integration, Cognition, (Multimodal) Language Acquisition (L1/L2), Pragmatics
PhD students
Orhun Uluşahin
PhD student
Speech Perception, Speech Production, Phonetic Convergence, Talker Familiarity
Alumni
PhD students
On 19th Jan, 2021, Greta Kaufeld successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled Investigating spoken language comprehension as perceptual inference. After her PhD, she took up a position at Disney Research Studios.
On 24th Sept, 2020, Joe Rodd successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled How speaking fast is like running: modelling control of speaking rate. After his PhD, he took up a position at the ‘Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs’ [DUO].
On 12th Dec, 2019, Merel Maslowski successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled Fast speech can sound slow: effects of contextual speech rate on word recognition. After her PhD, she took up a position at Royal Dutch Kentalis.
Interns
These are the names of bright students who wrote their BA/MA thesis in the group or who did an internship with us. You will find some of their names appear as authors on our publications.
Yitian Hong, Floris Cos, Ivy Mok, Eleni Zimianiti, Christina Papoutsi, Nora Kennis, Myriam Weiß, Giulio Severijnen, Marie Stadtbäumer, Vilde Reksnes, Jeonga Kim, Marjolein van Os, Rebecca Wogan, Rik Does, Wibke Naumann, Anna Ravenschlag.