Jacolien van Rij-Tange

Jacolien van Rij-Tange is a Lecturer in the Artificial Intelligence department at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen. Her research spans cognitive modeling, psycholinguistics, and language learning, with particular expertise in pronoun resolution and the cognitive mechanisms underlying language processing. She maintains an active research program with 48 publications to date and utilizes methodologies including lexical decision tasks, pupillometry, and reaction time measurements.

Dr. van Rij-Tange's research interests focus on understanding how grammatical structures support communication efficiency, how children acquire multiword expressions, and the cognitive costs associated with pragmatic processing. Her work examines pronoun psychology (100% focus), cognitive modeling (50%), psycholinguistics (50%), learning models (40%), language learning (40%), familiarity effects (40%), regression analysis (30%), and pronoun resolution (30%). She employs both experimental and computational approaches to investigate these phenomena.

Analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent focus on the intersection of cognitive psychology and linguistics, particularly examining how language structures influence cognitive processing. Her work demonstrates sophisticated methodological approaches combining experimental psychology with computational modeling, investigating topics ranging from grammatical gender to idiomatic expressions and pragmatic inference.

Dr. van Rij-Tange has been actively involved in academic presentations and research activities, including presenting at conferences on cognitive science and psycholinguistics. She has organized workshops such as 'Advanced Statistical Methods for Psycholinguistics' (2019) and contributed to public engagement through citizen science projects including the Weekend of Science 2019.