Jurriaan Witteman is a Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. He is a a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the neural basis of speech perception. He uses neuro-imaging and meta-science methods (meta-analysis, replication) to study these topics and adopt an Open Science approach.
I am specialized in the cognitive neuroscience of prosody perception, using neuroimaging and meta-science methods (replication, meta-analysis).
Grants and awards
Keetje Hodshon Prize for the best dissertation in Linguistics in the Netherlands (2017)
NWO Open Competition XS grant (2023)
Curriculum vitae
2017-present
Assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
2015-2017
Lecturer at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
2012-2015
Project coordinator at Dutch institute for Alcohol Policy
2014
PhD in cognitive neuroscience of language. Cum Laude.
2007-2012
PhD-candidate at Leiden University
2005-2007
Research Assistant at the Psychiatry and Neurosurgery department of Utrecht University medical centre
2005
MSc in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University Of Amsterdam. Cum Laude.
Key publications
Witteman J., IJzendoorn M.H. van, Rilling J.K., Bos P.A., Schiller N.O. & Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. (2019), Towards a neural model of infant cry perception, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 99: 23-32.
Witteman J., Heuven V.J. van & Schiller N.O. (2012), Hearing feelings: A quantitative meta-analysis on the neuroimaging literature of emotional prosody perception, Neuropsychologia 50(12): 7257-7263.
Witteman J., Van IJzendoorn M.H., Velde D.J. van de, Heuven V.J. van & Schiller N.O. (2011), The nature of hemispheric specialization for linguistic and emotional prosodic perception: A meta-analysis of the lesion literature, Neuropsychologia 49(13): 3722-3738.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Humanities
Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
LUCL Taalwetenschap
Work address
Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 1.48
Witteman J. (21 June 2017), Taalwetenschapper Jurriaan Witteman Over Over Spraakmelodieën In De Hersenen. (Sleutelstad FM). [interview].
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