Department of Psychology, Tufts University and Biography
Mante Nieuwland received his BA, MA & PhD (cum laude) in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam. As an MA student, he studied the neuropsychological and electrophysiological correlates of sensory gating deficiency in recent-onset schizophrenia. As a PhD student with Jos van Berkum, he studied the neural correlates of semantic and referential aspects of discourse comprehension, using EEG/ERPs and fMRI neuroimaging methods. He was awarded a 2-year Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for a post-doctoral research position with Gina Kuperberg; his current research focuses on the interplay of real-world knowledge and discourse constraints.
Publications
Submitted:
Begeer, Malle, Nieuwland, Keysar (submitted). Using Theory of Mind to understand the other: Evidence that individuals with high-functioning autism and typically developing controls use Theory of Mind the same way.
Geurts, Broeders & Nieuwland (submitted). Executive functions, Theory of Mind, and Pragmatic functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Selective Review.
Van Berkum, Holleman, Nieuwland, Otten & Murre (submitted). Good or bad? The brain's fast response to morally objectionable statements.
In press/Published:
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.