prof. dr. Jos van Berkum - Humanities

prof. dr. Jos van Berkum
j.vanberkum@uu.nl

Professor
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS - General
Department of Dutch Studies - Taalbeheersing

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Chair
Discourse, Cognition & Communication

Inaugural lecture date: 30.09.2011

Profile

These webpages, recently developed by the university, will soon be filled and extended. In the meantime, for information on publications etc.
please also visit my old (but maintained) website at the Max Planck Institute via www.josvanberkum.nl

I'll give my inaugural lecture "Zonder gevoel geen taal" on Friday September 30, 16:15 in the Academiegebouw of Utrecht University. (summary; full text in Dutch can be found here)

For a brief summary on my Vici-funded project "Moving the language user: Affect and perspective in discourse processing", go here and scroll down to the English text.

Focus areas
Neuroscience & Cognition Utrecht

Involved in the following study programme(s)
Communicatie- en informatiewetenschappen
Linguistics (Research Master)

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Key publications

Berkum, J.J.A. van (2010). The brain is a prediction machine that cares about good and bad - Any implications for neuropragmatics? Italian Journal of Linguistics, 22, 181-208.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Holleman, B.C., Nieuwland, M., Otten, M. & Murre, J.J.M. (2009). Right or wrong? The brain's fast response to morally objectionable statements. Psychological Science, 20, 1092-1099.

Berkum, J.J.A. van (2008). Understanding sentences in context: What brain waves can tell us. Current directions in psychological science, 17(6), 376-380.

All publications

Berkum, J.J.A. van (2011). Zonder gevoel geen taal.. Oratie uitgesproken bij het aanvaarden van de leeropdracht Discourse, cognitie en communicatie (2011, september 30). Utrecht: Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht.

Alphen, P.M. van & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2010). Is there pain in champagne? Semantic involvement of words within words during sense-making. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2618-2626.

Berkum, J.J.A. van (2010). The brain is a prediction machine that cares about good and bad - Any implications for neuropragmatics? Italian Journal of Linguistics, 22, 181-208.

Brink, D., Berkum, J.J.A. van, Bastiaansen, M.C.M., Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Kos, M, Buitelaar, J.K. & Hagoort, P. (2010). Empathy matters: ERP evidence for inter-individual differences in social language processing. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Adv.online(doi 10.1093/scan/nsq094).

Groen, W.B., Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Petersson, K.M., Berkum, J.J.A. van, Gaag, R.J. van der, Hagoort, P. & Buitelaar, J.K. (2010). Semantic, factual, and social language comprehension in adolescents with autism: An fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 20(8), 1937-1945.

Ringersma, J., Kastens, K., Tschida, U. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2010). A principled approach to online publication listings and scientific resource sharing. Code4Lib, 9.

Berkum, J.J.A. van (2009). Does the N400 directly reflect compositional sense-making? Psychophysiology, 46(Suppl. 1), s2.

Berkum, J.J.A. van (2009). The neuropragmatics of 'simple' utterance comprehension: An ERP review. In K. Yatsushiro & U. Sauerland (Eds.), Semantics and pragmatics: From experiment to theory (pp. 276-316). Basingstroke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Otten, M. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2009). Does working memory capacity affect the ability to predict upcoming words in discourse? Brain Research, 1291, 92-101.

Snijders, T.M., Vosse, T., Kempen, G., Berkum, J.J.A. van, Petersson, K.M. & Hagoort, P. (2009). Retrieval and unification of syntactic structure in sentence comprehension: An fMRI study using word-category ambiguity. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 1493-1503.

Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Petersson, K.M., Berkum, J.J.A. van, Brink, D. van den, Buitelaar, J.K. & Hagoort, P. (2009). Unification of speaker and meaning in language comprehension: An fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 2085-2099.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Brink, D. van den, Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Kos, M. & Hagoort, P. (2008). The neural integration of speaker and message. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(4), 580-591.

Berkum, J.J.A. van (2008). Understanding sentences in context: What brain waves can tell us. Current directions in psychological science, 17(6), 376-380.

Nieuwland, M.S. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2008). The interplay between semantic and referential aspects of anaphoric noun phrase resolution: Evidence from ERPs. Brain & Language, 106, 119-131.

Nieuwland, M.S. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2008). The neurocognition of referential ambiguity in language comprehension. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2(4), 603-630.

Otten, M. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2008). Discourse-based word anticipation during language processing: Prediction of priming? Discourse Processes, 45, 464-496.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Koornneef, A.W., Otten, M. & Nieuwland, M.S. (2007). Establishing reference in language comprehension: An electrophysiological perspective. Brain Research, 1146(1146), 158-171.

Hagoort, P. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2007). Beyond the sentence given. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 362, 801-811.

Nieuwland, M.S., Petersson, K.M. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2007). On sense and reference: Examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing. Neuroimage, 37(3), 993-1004.

Nieuwland, M.S., Otten, M. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2007). Who are you talking about? Tracking discourse-level referential processing with event-related brain potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(2), 228-236.

Otten, M., Nieuwland, M.S. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2007). Great expectations: Specific lexical anticipation influences the processing of spoken language. BMC Neuroscience [E], 8.

Otten, M. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2007). What makes a discourse constraining? Comparing the effects of discourse message and scenario fit on the discourse-dependent N400 effect. Brain Research, 1153, 166-177.

Koornneef, A.W. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2006). On the use of verb-based implicit causality in sentence comprehension: Evidence from self-paced reading and eye tracking. Journal of memory and language, 54, 445-465.

Nieuwland, M.S. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2006). Individual differences and contextual bias in pronoun resolution: Evidence from ERPs. Brain Research, 1118(1), 155-167.

Nieuwland, M.S. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2006). When peanuts fall in love: N400 evidence for the power of discourse. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(7), 1098-1111.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Brown, C.M., Zwitserlood, P., Kooijman, V. & Hagoort, P. (2005). Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31(3), 443-467.

Nieuwland, M.S. & Berkum, J.J.A. van (2005). Testing the limits of the semantic illusion phenomenon: ERPs reveal temporary semantic change deafness in discourse comprehension. Cognitive Brain Research, 24(3), 691-701.

Berkum, J.J.A. van (2004). Sentence comprehension in a wider discourse: Can we use ERPs to keep track of things? In M. Carreiras, Jr. & C. Clifton (Eds.), The on-line study of sentence comprehension: eyetracking, ERPs and beyond (pp. 229-270). New York: Psychology Press.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Brown, C.M., Hagoort, P. & Zwitserlood, P. (2003). Event-related brain potentials reflect discourse-referential ambiguity in spoken language comprehension. Psychophysiology, 40(2), 235-248.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Zwitserlood, P., Hagoort, P. & Brown, C.M. (2003). When and how do listeners relate a sentence to the wider discourse? Evidence from the N400 effect. Cognitive Brain Research, 17(3), 701-718.

Bastiaansen, M.C.M., Berkum, J.J.A. van & Hagoort, P. (2002). Event-related theta power increases in the human EEG during online sentence processing. Neuroscience letters, 323(1), 13-16.

Bastiaansen, M.C.M., Berkum, J.J.A. van & Hagoort, P. (2002). Syntactic processing modulates the θ rhythm of the human EEG. Neuroimage, 17, 1479-1494.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Hagoort, P. & Brown, C.M. (2000). The use of referential context and grammatical gender in parsing: A reply to Brysbaert and Mitchell. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(5), 467-481.

Brown, C.M., Berkum, J.J.A. van & Hagoort, P. (2000). Discourse before gender: An event-related brain potential study on the interplay of semantic and syntactic information during spoken language understanding. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(1), 53-68.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Brown, C.M. & Hagoort, P. (1999). Early referential context effects in sentence processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Journal of memory and language, 41(2), 147-182.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Hagoort, P. & Brown, C.M. (1999). Semantic integration in sentences and discourse: Evidence from the N400. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(6), 657-671.

Berkum, J.J.A. van, Brown, C.M. & Hagoort, P. (1999). When does gender constrain parsing? Evidence from ERPs. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 28(5), 555-566.

Berkum, J.J.A. van (1997). Syntactic processes in speech production: The retrieval of grammatical gender. Cognition, 64(2), 115-152.

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Courses

Currently prof. dr. Jos van Berkum teaches the following course(s):

Code	Description	F/P	Level	ECTS
LIMV11003	Language and emotion	V	M	5.0
LIMV09002	Discourse and cognition	V	M	5.0

Apart from the abovementioned courses, I'm

teaching Geheugen en Taal in the Ba Psychology (FSW), together with Albert Postma
coordinating the Language & Communication module in the Fundamentals of neuroscience and Cognition course, research master Neuroscience and cognition (FSW)
contributing to the 7 mythen van effectieve communicatie / 7 Myths of effective communication courses (Dutch language version: 200900082)

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Additional functions and activities

Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Neurobiology of Language group

Editorial boards:

Journal of Memory and Language (2007- )

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2007- )

Language & Linguistics Compass (2008- )

Journal of Semantics (2009- )

Discourse Processes (2010- )

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prof. dr. J.J.A. van Berkum

Contact details

Trans 10
Room 1.59
3512JK UTRECHT
+31 30 253 7984

j.vanberkum@uu.nl

In case of absence: +31 30 253 8000

Postal address
Trans 10
3512JK UTRECHT

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