About Me
Hello! I’m a developmental psychologist currently working as a lecturer at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. I run research projects with infants and adults using both eye-tracking and EEG methodologies, and below you can find more details about this work and resulting publications. When not working hard, I can usually be found wandering aimlessly around Aachen and the local area.
Research Statement
I’m fascinated by the cognitive processes that underlie our action and language understanding. While speech and action share many similarities in terms of structure and execution, we still have a long way to go before we can understand the relation between the cognitive processes that drive processing of these two streams of information. Taking a developmental and individual-differences approach, my research aims to disentangle and specify the mechanisms that underlie action and language processing during infancy and beyond.
Academic Positions
DFG-funded research unit “Crossing the Borders.”
Education
Title of thesis: “Temperament and early word learning: The effect of shyness on referent selection and retention”
- Supervised by Gert Westermann and Katherine Twomey
- Examined by Melissa Allen and Larissa Samuelson
Publications click on title for pdf
click on title for pdf