The Communicative Brain group is funded by a Minerva Fast Track Fellowship, awarded by the MPG, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The group is part of the Neurobiology of Language department.
The goal of the Communicative Brain group is to understand how the brain integrates auditory and visual signals into a coherent message during multimodal, face-to-face interactions. The core theory we want to test is whether and how oscillatory neural activity plays a role in integrating these different sources of information within and between conversational partners.
We will investigate this using new cutting-edge techniques, including dual-EEG, MEG, rapid invisible frequency tagging, and detailed behavioural analyses of auditory and visual signals in interactive contexts.
Team
Principal investigator
Linda Drijvers
Post-docs
Noor Seijdel
PhDs
Sara Mazzini
Marlijn ter Bekke
Miguel Rubianes Mendez (visiting)
Veerle Wilms
Cecilía Hústa
Master/Bachelor students
Athanasis Athanasiou
Noortje Akkermans
Almut Jebens
Florence Bonten
Daan van Oosten
Lina van Otterdijk
Alumni
Hanne van Uden
Veerle Wilms
Gaby Voorbraak
Kirstin Bleumink