Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and LanguageBiography
Mante Nieuwland, Ph.D., was a postdoc for two years in the NeuroCognition Lab after completing his PhD with Jos van Berkum at the University of Amsterdam. His postdoc was funded by a 2-year Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He worked on the interplay of real-world knowledge and discourse constraints using ERPs and fMRI. Mante is now a Junior Researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, where he continues to study high-level aspects of language comprehension using methods from cognitive neuroscience.
Publications
Begeer, S., Malle, B. F., Nieuwland, M. S., & Keysar, B. (2010). Using Theory of Mind to represent and take part in social interactions: Comparing individuals with high-functioning autism and typically developing controls. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7(1), 104-122.
Geurts, H. M., Broeders, M., & Nieuwland, M.S. (2010). Thinking outside the Executive Functions box: Theory of Mind and pragmatic abilities in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7(1), 135-151.
Van Berkum, J. J. A., Holleman, B., Nieuwland, M., Otten, M., & Murre, J. (2009). Right or Wrong? The brain's fast response to morally objectionable statements. Psychological Science, 20(9), 1092-1099.
Nieuwland, M.S. & Kuperberg, G.R. (2008). When the truth isn’t too hard to handle: An Event-Related Potential study on the Pragmatics of Negation. Psychological Science, 19 (12), 1213-1218.
Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2008). The neurocognition of referential ambiguity in language comprehension. Language and Linguistics Compass, Vol. 2, June 2008.
Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2008). The interplay between semantic and referential aspects of anaphoric noun phrase resolution: Evidence from ERPs. Brain and Language, 106, 119-131.
Otten, M., Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007). Great expectations: Specific lexical anticipation influences spoken language processing. BMC Neuroscience, 8:89, 1-9.
Nieuwland, M.S. (2007). Wie bedoel je? De neuro-imaging van referentiële verwerking tijdens taalbegrip. Neuropraxis, 11(5), 133-138.
Nieuwland, M.S., Otten, M. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007). Who are you talking about? Tracking discourse-level referential processes with ERPs. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(2), 1-9.
Nieuwland, M.S., Petersson K.M. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007). On sense and reference: Examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing. Neuroimage, 37(3), 993-1004.
Van Berkum, J.J.A., Koornneef, A.W., Otten, M. & Nieuwland, M.S. (2007). Establishing reference in language comprehension: An electrophysiological perspective. Brain Research, 1146, 158-171.
Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006), Individual differences and contextual bias in pronoun resolution: Evidence from ERPs. Brain Research, 1118, 155-167.
Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006). When peanuts fall in love: N400 evidence for the power of discourse. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(7), 1098-1111.
Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2005). Testing the limits of the semantic illusion phenomenon: ERPs reveal temporary change deafness in discourse comprehension. Cognitive Brain Research 24(3), 691-701.