New paper: From story comprehension to the neurobiology of language

We are proud to present our new publication, the editorial of the special issue on story comprehension “From story comprehension to the neuorobiology of language” in the Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience journal of Taylor Francis. Three BAND-lab members were involved in this special issue. Sonja Kotz and Laura Verga wrote about “Putting language back into … Read more New paper: From story comprehension to the neurobiology of language

Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Québec City, August 2018

This summer, our lab member Alex Emmendorfer presented the results of her first PhD experiment at the 2018 meeting of the Society of the Neurobiology of Language in Québec City, Canada. In this EEG study, Alex used Dutch pseudowords varying in their phonotactic probability and syllable stress pattern to examine the processing of formal and temporal prediction in … Read more Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Québec City, August 2018

Schultz MIDI Benchmarking Toolbox now available!

Ever wanted to test the timing of your MIDI percussion pads, sound modules, and instrument patches? Well now you can! The SMIDIBT is available and the scripts are free to download: https://rdcu.be/LQJQ If you have any comments or questions, feel free to contact Ben Schultz: ben.schultz@maastrichtuniversity.nl Reference Schultz, B. G. (2018). The Schultz MIDI … Read more Schultz MIDI Benchmarking Toolbox now available!

Beat Gestures and Syntactic Parsing: An ERP Study

The second part of a project investigating the relationship between prosody and speaker’s gestures, in collaboration with Lauren Fromont (Montreal) and Salvador Soto-Faraco (Barcelona), has been published now. If you want to read the whole story, check this out: Fromont L.A., Soto-Faraco S., and Biau E. (2017) Searching High and Low: Prosodic Breaks Disambiguate Relative … Read more Beat Gestures and Syntactic Parsing: An ERP Study

Blind people learn metrical and nonmetrical rhythms differently than the sighted

The article can be read here for free (for a limited time): http://rdcu.be/vTrT When learning rhythms, sighted people tend to learn rhythms better when they induce a sense of beat (i.e., metrical rhythms) compared to when they don’t (i.e., nonmetrical rhythms). This experiment shows that blind people demonstrated the reverse trend; they learned nonmetrical rhythms better … Read more Blind people learn metrical and nonmetrical rhythms differently than the sighted

Lab Director – Sonja A. Kotz

I hold a Chair in Neuropsychology and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN), Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology (NP&PP) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I serve as a board member and senior editor of major journals and actively review for all top journals in my fields of research (Nature, Science, Nature … Read more Lab Director – Sonja A. Kotz

Our Research

The primary goal of the group is to investigate the facilitatory effects of predictive cues in comprehension and its underlying processes. Focusing on rhythmic, formal, and emotional cues in communicative signals, we aim to identify factors that modulate the extraction of cues and thus the resulting predictions. Furthermore, we examine the functional and neuroanatomical links … Read more Our Research

Publications

Posts from our new articles: Beat Gestures and Syntactic Parsing: An ERP Study – Blind people learn metrical and nonmetrical rhythms differently than the sighted – Searching high and low: Prosodic breaks disambiguate relative clauses – Mutual coordination strengthens the sense of joint agency in cooperative joint action – Timing behavior in cerebellar patients published in Behavioural … Read more Publications

Meet the BAND-Lab

Here you will find information about our members and the research we conduct.

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Contact Us

If you are interested in joining the BAND Laboratory or collaborating on our projects, please email us:

Sonja Kotz: sonja.kotz@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Joseph Johnson: joseph.johnson@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Xanthate Duggirala: xanthate.duggirala@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Postal address:

Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER
Maastricht, The Netherlands

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