profile
2022- |
Associate Professor in Cognitive Science and Artificial
Intelligence
Tilburg
University
2018-2022 | PI in SFB1102:
Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL)
Saarland
University
2016-2022 | Scientific
Staff (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Psycholinguistics,
Department of Language Science and Technology (FR 4.70),
Saarland
University
2014-2016 |
Marie Curie "Experienced Researcher" Fellow
LanPercept,
Saarland
University
2015 | Robert J. Glushko Prize for outstanding dissertation in cognitive science
2010-2014 |
PhD in Cognitive Science (cum laude—highest possible
distinction)
NWO, CLCG,
BCN, University of
Groningen
2008-2010 |
MSc in Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (cum
laude—highest possible distinction)
BCN, University of
Groningen
2005-2008 | BA in
Information Science (cum laude—highest possible
distinction)
CLCG, University of Groningen
latest updates
18.01.2023 | New chapter (preprint): Computational Psycholinguistics (Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences)
28.10.2022 | New research topic: Neurocomputational Models of Language Processing (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
08.07.2022 | 2022 Scholar Metrics: A Neurocomputational Model of the N400 and the P600 in Language Processing is the most cited paper in Cognitive Science (2017-2022)
01.04.2022 | New software: Mesh: A lightweight and versatile artificial neural network simulator
publications
submitted / under revision
accepted / in press
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Crocker, M. W. and Brouwer, H. (to appear). Computational Psycholinguistics. In: Sun, R. (Ed.)., Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. [pdf]
journal articles
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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]
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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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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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Venhuizen, N. J., Hendriks, P., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2019). A Framework for Distributional Formal Semantics. In: Iemhoff, R., Moortgat, M., and de Queiroz, R. (Eds.), Logic, Language, Information, and Computation, Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop WoLLIC 2019, LNCS 11541, pp. 633-646. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-59533-6_39 [pdf]
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Calvillo, J., Brouwer, H., and Crocker, M. W. (2016). Connectionist Semantic Systematicity in Language Production. In: 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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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
Connectionist Language Processing, Summer 2022 (with Matthew W. Crocker).
Semantic Theory, Summer 2022 (with Noortje J. Venhuizen).
recent past
Neurocognition of Language, Winter 2021/22.
Connectionist Language Processing, Summer 2021.