Stan van der Burght is an assistant professor within the Language and Cognition track in Experimental Linguistics. He studies sentence processing and production, adopting a neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic approach. He takes a special interest in prosody (variations in intonation, loudness, and duration during speaking), so he tries to find answers to questions such as: How do various prosodic cues influence sentence processing? How do listeners differ in the way they perceive prosodic cues and how do speakers differ in the way they produce them? And how do conversation partners use and interpret prosody to convey what are particularly relevant parts of their message? To find answers to these questions, he uses both behavioural and neuroimaging methods. His research is performed in collaboration with the Psychology of Language department of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.

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Curriculum Vitae

2024-current: Assistant professor (UD), Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
2022-2024: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2021: Postdoc, Max Planck institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
2021: PhD in Psychology, Leipzig University / Max Planck institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Supervisors: Angela D. Friederici and Gesa Hartwigsen
2014: MSc in Clinical neuroscience, University College London
2012: BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Utrecht

Selected publications

Van der Burght, C.L. & Meyer, A.S. Semantic interference across word classes during lexical selection in Dutch. Cognition. (2025) https:⁠/⁠/doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105999

Van der Burght, C.L., Friederici, A., Maran, M., Papitto, G., Pyatigorskaya, E., Schröen, J., Trettenbrain, P.T., Zaccarella, E.: Cleaning up the Brickyard: How Theory and Methodology Affect Experimental Outcome in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2023) https:⁠/⁠/www⁠.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02058

Van der Burght, C.L., Numssen, O., Schlaak, B., Goucha, T., Hartwigsen, G.: Differential contributions of inferior frontal gyrus subregions to sentence processing guided by intonation. Human brain mapping. (2023) https:⁠/⁠/doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26086

Van der Burght, C.L., Friederici, A.D., Goucha, T., Hartwigsen, G.: Pitch accents create dissociable syntactic and semantic expectations during sentence processing. Cognition. (2021) https:⁠/⁠/doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104702

Van der Burght, C.L., Goucha, T., Friederici, A. D., Kreitewolf, J., Hartwigsen, G.: Intonation guides sentence processing in the left inferior frontal gyrus. Cortex (2019) https:⁠/⁠/doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.02.011

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