profile
Associate Professor in Cognitive Science and
Artificial Intelligence (tenured, ius
promovendi) (2022 —)
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Research Unit Leader | Computational Models
of Brain and Behavior (2024 —)
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Principal Investigator (PI) |
Neurocomputation of Language lab (2022 —)
Department of Cognitive Science and Articifial
Intelligence, Tilburg
University
Scientific Staff (Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter) (2014 – 2022)
— Principal
Investigator (PI) | CRC1102/IDeaL (2018 –
2022)
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Marie Curie "Experienced Researcher"
Fellow (EU Marie Curie ITN
LanPercept) (2014 – 2016)
Department of
Language Science and Technology (Psycholinguistics),
Saarland
University
PhD,
Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Groningen (2010 –
2014)
cum laude (highest possible distinction)
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Robert J. Glushko Prize for outstanding dissertation in
cognitive science (2015)
MSc, Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences
(research master), University of Groningen (2008 –
2010)
cum laude (highest possible distinction)
BA,
Information Science ('Computational
Linguistics'), University of
Groningen (2005 – 2008)
cum laude (highest possible distinction)
latest updates
27.09.2024 | Job opening: PhD-Researcher and Lecturer, Neurocomputation of Language, Tilburg University (1.0 fte, six years) (open until filled)
10.07.2024 | 2024 Scholar Metrics: Event-related potentials index lexical retrieval (N400) and integration (P600) during language comprehension is the most cited paper in Brain and Cognition (2019-2024)
10.06.2024 | New paper: On the limits of LLM Surprisal as functional explanation of ERPs (CogSci 2024)
12.04.2024 | Podcast: Neurocomputation of Language - TAISIG Talks - Tilburg University (Recorded: 04.04.2024)
19.01.2024 | PhD defense: Christoph Aurnhammer defended his thesis Expectation-based Retrieval and Integration in Language Comprehension (summa cum laude—highest possible distinction)
11.10.2023 | Symposium: Decoding your Thoughts: Can AI read your Mind? - Studium Generale - Tilburg University (Recorded: 21.09.2023)
publications
submitted / under revision
accepted / in press
journal articles
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Aurnhammer, C., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2023). Single-trial Neurodynamics Reveal N400 and P600 Coupling in Language Comprehension. Cognitive Neurodynamics. doi: 10.1007/s11571-023-09983-7 [pdf] [code] [data]
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Aurnhammer, C., Delogu, F., Brouwer, H., and Crocker, M. W. (2023). The P600 as a Continuous Index of Integration Effort. Psychophysiology, 2023;60:e14302. doi: 10.1111/psyp.14302 [pdf] [code] [data]
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Venhuizen, N. J., Hendriks, P., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2022). Distributional Formal Semantics. Information and Computation, 287: 104763. doi: 10.1016/j.ic.2021.104763 [pdf]
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Aurnhammer, C., Delogu, F., Schulz, M., Brouwer, H., and Crocker, M. W. (2021). Retrieval (N400) and Integration (P600) in Expectation-based Comprehension. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0257430. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257430 [pdf] [code] [data]
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Calvillo, J., Brouwer, H., and Crocker, M. W. (2021). Semantic Systematicity in Connectionist Language Production. Information, 12(8), 329. doi: 10.3390/info12080329 [pdf] [code]
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Delogu, F., Brouwer, H., and Crocker, M. W. (2021). When components collide: Spatiotemporal overlap of the N400 and P600 in language comprehension. Brain Research, 1766. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147514 [pdf] [code] [data]
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Brouwer, H., Delogu, F., Venhuizen, N. J., and Crocker, M. W. (2021). Neurobehavioral Correlates of Surprisal in Language Comprehension: A Neurocomputational Model. Frontiers in Psychology 12:110. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.615538 [pdf] [data]
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Brouwer, H., Delogu, F., and Crocker, M. W. (2021). Splitting Event-Related Potentials: Modeling Latent Components using Regression-based Waveform Estimation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 53, pp. 974-995. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14961 [pdf] [code] [data]
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Venhuizen, N. J., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2019). Semantic Entropy in Language Comprehension. Entropy, 21(12), 1159. doi: 10.3390/e21121159 [pdf]
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Delogu, F., Brouwer, H., and Crocker, M. W. (2019). Event-related potentials index lexical retrieval (N400) and integration (P600) during language comprehension. Brain and Cognition, 135. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2019.05.007 [pdf] [data]
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Venhuizen, N. J., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2019). Expectation-based Comprehension: Modeling the interaction of world knowledge and linguistic experience. Discourse Processes, 56:3, pp. 229-255. doi: 10.1080/0163853X.2018.1448677 [pdf]
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Venhuizen, N. J., Bos, J., Hendriks, P., and Brouwer, H. (2018). Discourse Semantics with Information Structure. Journal of Semantics, 35(1), pp. 127-169. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffx017 [pdf]
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Khachatryan, E., Brouwer, H., Staljanssens, W., Carrette, E., Meurs, A., Boon, P., Van Roost, D., and Van Hulle, M. (2018). A New Insight into Sentence Comprehension: the Impact of Word Associations in Sentence Processing as Shown by Invasive EEG Recording. Neuropsychologia, 108, pp. 103-116. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.002 [pdf]
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Brouwer, H. and Crocker, M. W. (2017). On the proper treatment of the N400 and P600 in language comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology 8:1327. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01327 [pdf]
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Brouwer, H., Crocker M. W., Venhuizen, N. J., and Hoeks, J. C. J. (2017). A Neurocomputational Model of the N400 and the P600 in Language Processing. Cognitive Science, 41(S6), pp. 1318-1352. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12461 [pdf] [supporting information]
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Brouwer, H. and Crocker, M. W. (2016). On the Organization of the Perisylvian Cortex: Insights from the Electrophysiology of Language. Comment on "Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain" by M.A. Arbib. Physics of Life Reviews, 16, pp. 58-60. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2015.12.006 [pdf]
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Brouwer, H. and Hoeks J. C. J. (2013). A Time and Place for Language Comprehension: Mapping the N400 and the P600 to a Minimal Cortical Network. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7:758. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00758 [pdf]
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Hoeks, J. C. J., Stowe, L. A., Hendriks, P., and Brouwer, H. (2013). Questions left unanswered: How the brain responds to missing information. PLoS ONE, 8(10): e73594. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073594 [pdf] [materials]
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Brouwer, H., Fitz, H., and Hoeks, J. C. J. (2012). Getting real about Semantic Illusions: Rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension. Brain Research, 1446, pp. 127-143. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.01.055 [pdf]
book chapters
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Crocker, M. W. and Brouwer, H. (2023). Computational Psycholinguistics. In: Sun, R. (Ed.)., Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. [pdf]
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Hoeks, J. C. J. and Brouwer, H. (2014). Electrophysiological Research on Conversation and Discourse Processing. In: Holtgraves, T. (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology, pp. 365-386. New York: Oxford University Press. [pdf]
conference papers
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Calvillo, J., Brouwer, H., and Crocker, M. W. (2016). Connectionist Semantic Systematicity in Language Production. In: Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman D., and Trueswell, J. C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2555-2560, August 10-13, Philadelphia, United States. [code]
phd thesis
Brouwer, H. (2014). The Electrophysiology of
Language Comprehension: A Neurocomputational Model. PhD
thesis, University of Groningen. [pdf]
[propositions]
[précis]
Supervisors: prof.
dr. J. C. J. Hoeks, prof. dr. ir. J.
Nerbonne; Reading committee: prof.
dr. P. Hendriks, prof. dr. M.
Kutas, prof.
dr. D. C. Plaut; Extended reading committee: prof. dr. J. J. A.
van Berkum,
prof. dr. G. R. Kuperberg
talks and posters
My resume contains a full list of talks and posters—send me an email to obtain a copy.
software
original
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rerps: regression-based Event-Related Potential (ERP) waveform estimation.
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Mesh: A lightweight and versatile artificial neural network simulator.
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dispace: Implementation of the Distributed Situation-state Space (DSS) model.
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PDRT-SANDBOX: A Haskell library implementing (Projective) Discourse Representation Theory.
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COALS: Implementation of the Correlated Occurrence Analogue to Lexical Semantics.
ports
teaching
current
Introduction to Cognitive Science, 2024/25 Semester 1
Bachelorthesis CSAI, 2024/25 Semester 1
recent past
Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023/24 Semester 2
Bachelorthesis CSAI, 2023/24 Semester 2