Srdjan Popov

Srdjan Popov is Assistant Professor of Neurolinguistics at the University of Groningen Faculty of Arts, where he investigates real-time language processing in healthy and clinical populations. His work combines behavioural, electrophysiological and cross-linguistic methods to understand how morpho-syntactic and tonal information are computed during comprehension and production.

Research interests revolve around the cognitive and neural architecture of sentence-level language processing. Key themes include:

• processing of grammatical tone in tone languages (Akan, Tagalog)
• pronoun resolution and reference in aphasia
• visual and morphological priming effects on parsing
• advance planning scope during sentence formulation

Empirically he employs self-paced reading, ERP, and language-production paradigms with monolingual and bilingual speakers, including individuals with post-stroke aphasia.

Recent publications (2021-2025) reveal a clear trajectory toward multimodal and cross-linguistic experimentation: half of the papers examine under-studied tone languages, while the remainder probe Dutch morpho-syntax and aphasic language control, highlighting both universal and language-specific mechanisms.

Awards & grants: No specific prizes or major grants are listed in the supplied material.

Supervision & teams: Popov is affiliated with the Neurolinguistics and Language Development (NLD) group and currently supervises at least ten student projects (theses, posters, conference abstracts), indicating active mentoring within the faculty.