Arnout Koornneef is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University. Arnout’s research focuses on the question of how readers construct a coherent mental representation of texts. In his current projects he examines how digital reading applications can foster the reading acquisition processes of beginner readers

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Short CV

Arnout Koornneef is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education and Child Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 2008. Afterwards he spent 4 years as a teacher (and post-doctoral fellow) in the Linguistics Department of the same university and in 2012 he was a visiting professor at the University of Florida. Arnout has been on the faculty at Leiden University since 2014. 

Research

Arnout’s research focuses on the question of how readers construct a coherent mental representation of texts. In his current projects he examines how digital reading applications can foster the reading acquisition processes of beginner readers. He uses various research methods, ranging from simple reaction time experiments to more sophisticated eye-tracking techniques.

Grants

NWO VENI-grant (2012-2016): Do older readers become incoherent readers?

Supervised PhD candidates

• Astrid Kraal, Different Readers, Different Texts, Different Processes: The Effects of Reader and Text Properties on Text Processing, 2020.
• Marloes van Moort, What you read vs. what you know: A methodologically diverse approach to unraveling the neuro-cognitive architecture of text-based and knowledge-based validation processes during reading, 2022.
   

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Publications