Reply to: can CBT substantially change grey matter volume in chronic fatigue syndrome? (2009)
De Lange, Floris P., Koers, Anda, Kalkman, Joke S., Bleijenberg, Gijs, Hagoort, Peter, ...
The Use of Referential Context and Grammatical Gender in Parsing: A Reply (2008)
To Brysbaert, Peter Hagoort, Colin M. Brown
Based on the results of an event-related brain potentials (ERP) experiment (van Berkum, Brown, & Hagoort. 1999a, b), we have recently argued that discourse-level referential context can be taken...
This paper focuses on what electrical and magnetic recordings of human brain activity reveal about spoken language understanding. Based on the high temporal resolution of these recordings, a...
The neural integration of speaker and message (2008)
Van Den Brink, Daniëlle, Kos, Miriam, Hagoort, Peter
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...
Musical syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia (2008)
Patel, Aniruddh D., Iversen, John R., Wassenaar, Marlies, Hagoort, Peter
Background: Growing evidence for overlap in the syntactic processing of language and music in non-brain-damaged individuals leads to the question of whether aphasic individuals with grammatical...
Computing and recomputing discourse models: An ERP study (2008)
Baggio, Giosuè, Van Lambalgen, Michiel, Hagoort, Peter
While syntactic reanalysis has been extensively investigated in psycholinguistics, comparatively little is known about reanalysis in the semantic domain. We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs)...
Scheeringa, René, Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Petersson, Karl Magnus, Oostenveld, Robert, Norris, David G., Hagoort, Peter
We used simultaneously recorded EEG and fMRI to investigate in which areas the BOLD signal correlates with frontal theta power changes, while subjects were quietly lying resting in the scanner with...
Unimpaired sentence comprehension after anterior temporal cortex resection (2008)
Kho, K. H., Indefrey, Peter, Hagoort, Peter, Van Rijen, P. C., Ramsey, N. F.
Functional imaging studies have demonstrated involvement of the anterior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension. It is unclear, however, whether the anterior temporal cortex is essential for this...
Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Oostenveld, Robert, Jensen, Ole, Hagoort, Peter
An influential hypothesis regarding the neural basis of the mental lexicon is that semantic representations are neurally implemented as distributed networks carrying sensory, motor and/or more...
Li, Xiaoqing, Hagoort, Peter, Yang, Yufang
In an event-related potential experiment with Chinese discourses as material, we investigated how and when accentuation influences spoken discourse comprehension in relation to the different...
Should psychology ignore the language of the brain? (2008)
Claims that neuroscientific data do not contribute to our understanding of psychological functions have been made recently. Here I argue that these criticisms are solely based on an analysis of...
De Lange, Floris P., Koers, Anda, Kalkman, Joke S., Bleijenberg, Gijs, Hagoort, Peter, ...
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disabling disorder, characterized by persistent or relapsing fatigue. Recent studies have detected a decrease in cortical grey matter volume in patients with CFS,...
Pitch accent and lexical tone processing in Chinese discourse comprehension: An ERP study (2008)
Li, Xiaoqing, Yang, Yufang, Hagoort, Peter
In the present study, event-related brain potentials (ERP) were recorded to investigate the role of pitch accent and lexical tone in spoken discourse comprehension. Chinese was used as material to...
Willems, Roel M., Ozyurek, Asli, Hagoort, Peter
Understanding language always occurs within a situational context and, therefore, often implies combining streams of information from different domains and modalities. One such combination is that of...
Willems, Roel M., Ozyurek, Asli, Hagoort, Peter
Understanding language always occurs within a situational context and, therefore, often implies combining streams of information from different domains and modalities. One such combination is that of...
Toni, Ivan, De Lange, Floris P., Noordzij, Matthijs L., Hagoort, Peter
The discovery of mirror neurons in macaques and of a similar system in humans has provided a new and fertile neurobiological ground for rooting a variety of cognitive faculties. Automatic...
Willems, Roel M., Oostenveld, Robert, Hagoort, Peter
Language is often perceived together with visual information. This raises the question on how the brain integrates information conveyed in visual and/or linguistic format during spoken language...
The inferior frontal cortex in artificial syntax processing: An rTMS study (2008)
Uddén, Julia, Folia, Vasiliki, Forkstam, Christian, Ingvar, Martin, Fernandez, Guillen, Overeem, Sebastiaan, ...
The human capacity to implicitly acquire knowledge of structured sequences has recently been investigated in artificial grammar learning using functional magnetic resonance imaging. It was found that...
Snijders, Tineke M., Vosse, Theo, Kempen, Gerard, Petersson, Karl Magnus, Hagoort, Peter
Sentence comprehension requires the retrieval of single word information from long-term memory, and the integration of this information into multiword representations. The current functional magnetic...
Language conflict in the bilingual brain (2008)
Schriefers, Herbert, Dijkstra, Ton, Hagoort, Peter
The large majority of humankind is more or less fluent in 2 or even more languages. This raises the fundamental question how the language network in the brain is organized such that the correct...
Implicit learning and dyslexia (2008)
Folia, Vasiliki, Uddén, Julia, Forkstam, Christian, Ingvar, Martin, Hagoort, Peter, Petersson, Karl Magnus
Several studies have reported an association between dyslexia and implicit learning deficits. It has been suggested that the weakness in implicit learning observed in dyslexic individuals may be...
Language Conflict in the Bilingual Brain (2008)
Schriefers, Herbert, Dijkstra, Ton, Hagoort, Peter
The large majority of humankind is more or less fluent in 2 or even more languages. This raises the fundamental question how the language network in the brain is organized such that the correct...
When Language Meets Action: The Neural Integration of Gesture and Speech (2007)
Willems, Roel M., Özyürek, Asli, Hagoort, Peter
Although generally studied in isolation, language and action often co-occur in everyday life. Here we investigated one particular form of simultaneous language and action, namely speech and gestures...
Neural evidence for the interplay between language, gesture, and action: A review (2007)
Willems, Roel M., Hagoort, Peter
Co-speech gestures embody a form of manual action that is tightly coupled to the language system. As such, the co-occurrence of speech and co-speech gestures is an excellent example of the interplay...
Hald, Lea A., Steenbeek-Planting, Esther G., Hagoort, Peter
In an ERP experiment we investigated how the recruitment and integration of world knowledge information relate to the integration of information within a current discourse context. Participants were...
Beyond the sentence given (2007)
A central and influential idea among researchers of language is that our language faculty is organized according to Fregean compositionality, which states that the meaning of an utterance is a...
When language meets action: The neural integration of gesture and speech (2007)
Willems, Roel M., Ozyurek, Asli, Hagoort, Peter
Although generally studied in isolation, language and action often co-occur in everyday life. Here we investigated one particular form of simultaneous language and action, namely speech and gestures...
Ozyurek, Asli, Willems, Roel M., Kita, Sotaro, Hagoort, Peter
During language comprehension, listeners use the global semantic representation from previous sentence or discourse context to immediately integrate the meaning of each upcoming word into the...
Neurophysiological evidence of delayed segmentation in a foreign language (2007)
Snijders, Tineke M., Kooijman, Valesca, Cutler, Anne, Hagoort, Peter
Previous studies have shown that segmentation skills are language-specific, making it difficult to segment continuous speech in an unfamiliar language into its component words. Here we present the...
On the origins of intentions (2007)
De Ruiter, Jan Peter, Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S., Hagoort, Peter, Toni, I.
Wassenaar, Marlies, Hagoort, Peter
An event-related brain potential experiment was carried out to investigate on-line thematic role assignment during sentence–picture matching in patients with Broca's aphasia. Subjects were...
Hoeks, John C. J., Hendriks, Petra, Vonk, Wietske, Brown, Colin M., Hagoort, Peter
When faced with the noun phrase (NP) versus sentence (S) coordination ambiguity as in, for example, The thief shot the jeweller and the cop hellip, readers prefer the reading with NP-coordination...
Neural correlates of artificial syntactic structure classification (2006)
Forkstam, Christian, Hagoort, Peter, Fernandez, Guillen, Ingvar, Martin, Petersson, Karl Magnus
The human brain supports acquisition mechanisms that extract structural regularities implicitly from experience without the induction of an explicit model. It has been argued that the capacity to...
The cascaded nature of lexical selection and integration in auditory sentence processing (2006)
Van Den Brink, Daniëlle, Brown, Colin M., Hagoort, Peter
An event-related brain potential experiment was carried out to investigate the temporal relationship between lexical selection and the semantic integration in auditory sentence processing....
Oscillatory neuronal dynamics during language comprehension (2006)
Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Hagoort, Peter
Language comprehension involves two basic operations: the retrieval of lexical information (such as phonologic, syntactic, and semantic information) from long-term memory, and the unification of this...
When Language Meets Action: The Neural Integration of Gesture and Speech (2006)
Willems, Roel M., Özyürek, Asli, Hagoort, Peter
Although generally studied in isolation, language and action often co-occur in everyday life. Here we investigated one particular form of simultaneous language and action, namely speech and gestures...
When Language Meets Action: The Neural Integration of Gesture and Speech (2006)
Willems, Roel M., Özyürek, Asli, Hagoort, Peter
Although generally studied in isolation, language and action often co-occur in everyday life. Here we investigated one particular form of simultaneous language and action, namely speech and gestures...
Kooijman, Valesca, Hagoort, Peter, Cutler, Anne
Children begin to talk at about age one. The vocabulary they need to do so must be built on perceptual evidence and, indeed, infants begin to recognize spoken words long before they talk. Most of the...
Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times (2005)
Brown, Colin M., Zwitserlood, Pienie, Kooijman, Valesca, Hagoort, Peter
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...
MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Hagoort, Peter, Cutler, Anne
Children begin to talk at about age one. The vocabulary they need to do so must be built on perceptual evidence and, indeed, infants begin to recognize spoken words long before they talk. Most of the...
The comprehension of gesture and speech (2005)
Willems, Roel M., Ozyurek, Asli, Hagoort, Peter
Although generally studied in isolation, action observation and speech comprehension go hand in hand during everyday human communication. That is, people gesture while they speak. From previous...
Word-category violations in patients with Broca's aphasia: An ERP study (2005)
Wassenaar, Marlies, Hagoort, Peter
An event-related brain potential experiment was carried out to investigate on-line syntactic processing in patients with Broca’s aphasia. Subjects were visually presented with sentences that were...
On Broca, brain, and binding: A new framework (2005)
In speaking and comprehending language, word information is retrieved from memory and combined into larger units (unification). Unification operations take place in parallel at the semantic,...
Gray matter volume reduction in the chronic fatigue syndrome (2005)
De Lange, Floris P., Kalkman, Joke S., Bleijenberg, Gijs, Hagoort, Peter, Toni, Ivan
The chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disabling disorder of unknown etiology. The symptomatology of CFS (central fatigue, impaired concentration, attention and memory) suggests that this disorder...
Neural topography and content of movement representations (2005)
De Lange, Floris P., Hagoort, Peter, Toni, Ivan
We have used implicit motor imagery to investigate the neural correlates of motor planning independently from actual movements. Subjects were presented with drawings of left or right hands and asked...
Theta responses are involved in lexico-semantic retrieval during language processing (2005)
Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Van Der Linden, Marieke, Ter Keurs, Mariken, Dijkstra, Ton, Hagoort, Peter
Oscillatory neuronal dynamics, observed in the human electroencephalogram (EEG) during language processing, have been related to the dynamic formation of functionally coherent networks that serve the...
Aleman, André, Formisano, Elia, Koppenhagen, Heidi, Hagoort, Peter, Kahn, René S
We hypothesized that areas in the temporal lobe that have been implicated in the phonological processing of spoken words would also be activated during the generation and phonological processing of...
Kooijman, Valesca, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Hagoort, Peter, Cutler, Anne, ...
Children begin to talk at about age one. The vocabulary they need to do so must be built on perceptual evidence and, indeed, infants begin to recognize spoken words long before they talk. Most of the...
Aleman, André, Formisano, Elia, Koppenhagen, Heidi, Hagoort, Peter, Kahn, René S.
We hypothesized that areas in the temporal lobe that have been implicated in the phonological processing of spoken words would also be activated during the generation and phonological processing of...
Integration of word meaning and world knowledge in language comprehension (2004)
Hagoort, Peter, Hald, Lea, Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Petersson, Karl Magnus
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...
Krott, Andrea, Hagoort, Peter, Baayen, R. Harald
This study addresses the supralexical inferential processes underlying wellformedness judgements and latencies for a specic sublexical unit that appears in Dutch compounds, the interfix. Production...
Neural responses to the production and comprehension of syntax in identical utterances (2004)
Indefrey, Peter, Hellwig, Frauke M., Herzog, Hans, Seitz, Rüdiger J., Hagoort, Peter
Following up on an earlier positron emission tomography (PET) experiment (Indefrey et al., 2001), we used a scene description paradigm to investigate whether a posterior inferior frontal region...
ERP-effects of subject-verb agreement violations in patients with Broca's aphasia (2004)
Wassenaar, Marlies, Brown, Colin M., Hagoort, Peter
This article presents electrophysiological data on on-line syntactic processing during auditory sentence comprehension in patients with Broca's aphasia. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were...
Van Den Brink, Daniëlle, Hagoort, Peter
An event-related brain potential experiment was carried out to investigate the influence of semantic and syntactic context constraints on lexical selection and integration in spoken-word...
Neural correlates of the chronic fatigue syndrom: An fMRI study (2004)
De Lange, Floris P., Kalkman, Joke S., Bleijenberg, Gijs, Hagoort, Peter, Van Der Werf, Sieberen P., ...
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by a debilitating fatigue of unknown aetiology. Patients who suffer from CFS report a variety of physical complaints as well as neuropsychological...
Neural correlates of the chronic fatigue syndrome--an fMRI study (2004)
De Lange, Floris P., Kalkman, Joke S., Bleijenberg, Gijs, Hagoort, Peter, Vd Werf, Sieberen P., ...
Summary Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by a debilitating fatigue of unknown aetiology. Patients who suffer from CFS report a variety of physical complaints as well as...
Aleman, André, Formisano, Elia, Koppenhagen, Heidi, Hagoort, Peter, Kahn, René S.
We hypothesized that areas in the temporal lobe that have been implicated in the phonological processing of spoken words would also be activated during the generation and phonological processing of...
Neural correlates of the chronic fatigue syndrome--an fMRI study (2004)
De Lange, Floris P., Kalkman, Joke S., Bleijenberg, Gijs, Hagoort, Peter, Vd Werf, Sieberen P., ...
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by a debilitating fatigue of unknown aetiology. Patients who suffer from CFS report a variety of physical complaints as well as neuropsychological...
Neural correlates of the chronic fatigue syndrome--an fMRI study (2004)
De Lange, Floris P., Kalkman, Joke S., Bleijenberg, Gijs, Hagoort, Peter, Vd Werf, Sieberen P., ...
Summary Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by a debilitating fatigue of unknown aetiology. Patients who suffer from CFS report a variety of physical complaints as well as...
Aleman, André, Formisano, Elia, Koppenhagen, Heidi, Hagoort, Peter, Kahn, René S.
We hypothesized that areas in the temporal lobe that have been implicated in the phonological processing of spoken words would also be activated during the generation and phonological processing of...
Zwitserlood, Pienie, Hagoort, Peter, Brown, Colin M.
In two ERP experiments, we assessed the impact of discourse-level information on the processing of an unfolding spoken sentence. Subjects listened to sentences like Jane told her brother that he was...
Brown, Colin M., Hagoort, Peter, Zwitserlood, Pienie
In two experiments, we explored the use of event-related brain potentials to selectively track the processes that establish reference during spoken language comprehension. Subjects listened to...
Understanding words in sentence contexts: The time course of ambiguity resolution (2003)
Swaab, Tamara, Brown, Colin M., Hagoort, Peter
Spoken language comprehension requires rapid integration of information from multiple linguistic sources. In the present study we addressed the temporal aspects of this integration process by...
Syntax-related ERP-effects in Dutch (2003)
Hagoort, Peter, Wassenaar, Marlies, Brown, Colin M.
In two studies subjects were required to read Dutch sentences that in some cases contained a syntactic violation, in other cases a semantic violation. All syntactic violations were word category...
Hagoort, Peter, Wassenaar, Marlies, Brown, Colin M.
To understand spoken language requires that the brain provides rapid access to different kinds of knowledge, including the sounds and meanings of words, and syntax. Syntax specifies constraints on...
Syntax is one of the components in the architecture of language processing that allows the listener/reader to bind single-word information into a unified interpretation of multiword utterances. This...
This study investigated the effects of combined semantic and syntactic violations in relation to the effects of single semantic and single syntactic violations on language-related event-related brain...
Differential fronto-parietal contributions to visual and motor imagery (2003)
De Lange, Floris, Hagoort, Peter, Toni, Ivan
Mental imagery is a cognitive process crucial to human reasoning. Numerous studies have characterized specific instances of this cognitive ability, as evoked by visual imagery (VI) or motor imagery...
Event-induced theta responses as a window on the dynamics of memory (2003)
Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Hagoort, Peter
An important, but often ignored distinction in the analysis of EEG signals is that between evoked activity and induced activity. Whereas evoked activity reflects the summation of transient...
Event-related theta power increases in the human EEG during online sentence processing (2002)
Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Hagoort, Peter
By analyzing event-related changes in induced band power in narrow frequency bands of the human electroencephalograph, the present paper explores a possible functional role of the alpha and theta...
Syntactic processing modulates the θ rhythm of the human EEG (2002)
Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Hagoort, Peter
Changes in oscillatory brain dynamics can be studied by means of induced band power (IBP) analyses, which quantify event-related changes in amplitude of frequency-specific EEG rhythms. Such analyses...
Control of language use: Cognitive modeling of the hemodynamics of Stroop task performance (2002)
The control of language use has in its simplest form perhaps been most intensively studied using the color–word Stroop task. The authors review chronometric and neuroimaging evidence on Stroop task...
Ter Keurs, Mariken, Brown, Colin M., Hagoort, Peter
This paper presents electrophysiological evidence of an impairment in the on-line processing of word class information in patients with Broca’s aphasia with agrammatic comprehension. Event-related...
A neural correlate of syntactic encoding during speech production. (2001)
Indefrey, Peter, Brown, Colin M., Hellwig, Frauke M., Amunts, K., Herzog, H., Seitz, R. J., ...
Syntactic processing in left prefrontal cortex is independent of lexical meaning. (2001)
Indefrey, Peter, Hagoort, Peter, Herzog, H., Seitz, R. J., Brown, Colin M.
Two ways to meaning - A combined PET/ERP study. (2000)
Indefrey, Peter, Brown, Colin M., Hellwig, Frauke M., Herzog, H., Seitz, R. J., Hagoort, Peter
The neural circuitry involved in the reading of German words and pseudowords: A PET study. (1999)
Hagoort, Peter, Indefrey, Peter, Brown, Colin M., Herzog, H., Steinmetz, H.
Ter Keurs, Mariken, Brown, Colin M., Hagoort, Peter, Stegeman, Dick F.
This paper presents electrophysiological data on the on-line processing of open- and closed-class words in patients with Broca's aphasia with agrammatic comprehension. Event-related brain potentials...
Hagoort, Peter, Brown, Colin M., Swaab, Tamara Y.
Lexical—semantic processing impairments in aphasic patients with left hemisphere lesions and non-aphasic patients with right hemisphere lesions were investigated by recording event-related brain...
WORD DEAFNESS AND AUDITORY CORTICAL FUNCTION: A CASE HISTORY AND HYPOTHESIS (1991)
PRAAMSTRA, PETER, HAGOORT, PETER, MAASSEN, BEN, CRUL, THOM
A patient who already had Wernick's aphasia due to a left temporal lobe lesion suffered a severe deterioration specifically of auditory language comprehension, subsequent to right temporal lobe...
Tracking the time course of language understanding in aphasia /--door Pieter Hagoort. (1990)
Summary in Dutch.
A neural correlate of syntactic encoding during speech production
Indefrey, Peter, Brown, Colin M., Hellwig, Frauke, Amunts, Katrin, Herzog, Hans, Seitz, Rüdiger J., ...
Spoken language is one of the most compact and structured ways to convey information. The linguistic ability to structure individual words into larger sentence units permits speakers to express a...
Hagoort, Peter, Wassenaar, Marlies, Brown, Colin
To understand spoken language requires that the brain provides rapid access to different kinds of knowledge, including the sounds and meanings of words, and syntax. Syntax specifies constraints on...
A neural correlate of syntactic encoding during speech production
Indefrey, Peter, Brown, Colin M., Hellwig, Frauke, Amunts, Katrin, Herzog, Hans, Seitz, Rüdiger J., ...
Spoken language is one of the most compact and structured ways to convey information. The linguistic ability to structure individual words into larger sentence units permits speakers to express a...
Hagoort, Peter, Wassenaar, Marlies, Brown, Colin
To understand spoken language requires that the brain provides rapid access to different kinds of knowledge, including the sounds and meanings of words, and syntax. Syntax specifies constraints on...
Frontal theta EEG activity correlates negatively with the default mode network in resting state
Scheeringa, René, Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Petersson, Karl M., Oostenveld, Robert, Norris, David G., Hagoort, Peter
We used simultaneously recorded EEG and fMRI to investigate in which areas the BOLD signal correlates with frontal theta power changes, while subjects were quietly lying resting in the scanner with...
Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M., Oostenveld, Robert, Jensen, Ole, Hagoort, Peter
An influential hypothesis regarding the neural basis of the mental lexicon is that semantic representations are neurally implemented as distributed networks carrying sensory, motor and/or more...
Language, linguistics and cognition
Baggio, Giosuè, Van Lambalgen, Michiel, Hagoort, Peter
This chapter provides a partial overview of some currently debated issues in the cognitive science of language. We distinguish two families of problems, which we refer to as ‘language and...
Hagoort, Peter, Van Berkum, Jos
A central and influential idea among researchers of language is that our language faculty is organized according to Fregean compositionality, which states that the meaning of an utterance is a...
Language Conflict in the Bilingual Brain
Schriefers, Herbert, Dijkstra, Ton, Hagoort, Peter
The large majority of humankind is more or less fluent in 2 or even more languages. This raises the fundamental question how the language network in the brain is organized such that the correct...
What are the brain mechanisms underlying syntactic operations?
Fedor, A., Brauer, Jens, Caplan, David, Friederici, Angela D., Gulyás, B., Hagoort, Peter, ...
Strüngmann Forum Reports
When do listeners think about the speaker? Neural evidence for rapid voice-based speaker modelling
Van Den Brink, Daniëlle, Tesink, Cathelijne, Kos, Miriam, Hagoort, Peter
This paper focuses on what electrical and magnetic recordings of human brain activity reveal about spoken language understanding. Based on the high temporal resolution of these recordings, a...
Perceptual Incongruence Influences Bistability and Cortical Activation
Brouwer, Gijs Joost, Tong, Frank, Hagoort, Peter, Van Ee, Raymond
We employed a parametric psychophysical design in combination with functional imaging to examine the influence of metric changes in perceptual incongruence on perceptual alternation rates and...
Brain Mechanisms Underlying Human Communication
Noordzij, Matthijs L., Newman-Norlund, Sarah E., De Ruiter, Jan Peter, Hagoort, Peter, Levinson, Stephen C., Toni, Ivan
Human communication has been described as involving the coding-decoding of a conventional symbol system, which could be supported by parts of the human motor system (i.e. the “mirror neurons...