Christina Bergmann

Christina Bergmann is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where she works within the Language Development Department. She previously conducted postdoctoral research at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) and completed her PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen and the International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences.

• B.Sc. in Cognitive Science (University of Osnabrück, 2007)
• M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University, 2009)
• PhD in Early Language Acquisition (Radboud University & Max Planck Research School, 2014)

Her research focuses on how infants develop language skills despite variable environments, using experimental studies, large-scale collaborations, corpus analysis, meta-analyses, and computational models. She investigates how parental beliefs and input variability affect infant language acquisition.

Christina's publications demonstrate expertise in computational modeling of speech processing, infant word recognition, and pronoun comprehension. Her work spans interdisciplinary approaches combining psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on methodological transparency and collaborative research practices.

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship

She has collaborated with leading researchers like Alejandrina Cristia and Emmanuel Dupoux, and contributes to platforms such as CogTales to support junior female cognitive scientists. Her career has been supported by institutions including the Dutch Science Organisation (NWO), Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Ecole de Neurosciences Paris.