Katrien Segaert
Neuroscience of language lab
Welcome!
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and affiliated with the Centre for Human Brain Health at the University of Birmingham. My research focuses on the neurobiology of language processing, with a special focus on how sentence-level processes and interactive communication are supported by the brain. I also study how the neurobiological infrastructure of language processing changes throughout the lifespan, and I research lifestyle factors (such as regular physical exercise) that can mitigate language decline in ageing populations.
I am an Editor-in-Chief for the journal Cognition, a key psychology journal that aims to publish papers that afford important theoretical advances in our field. Currently, I am also the Programme Committee Chair of the Society for Neurobiology of Language - our Society's next meeting will take place Sept 12-14 at Gallaudet University. If you have questions or suggestions regarding the journal Cognition or The Society for Neurobiology of Language, then please contact me.
Before taking up my tenured position at the University of Birmingham, I was a staff researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. I received my PhD from the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and my Msc and Bsc in Psychology from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Contact me? k.segaert[at]bham.ac.uk