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Harm Brouwer is an Associate Professor at Tilburg University's School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, within the Department of Cognitive Science and AI. His research focuses on neurocomputational modeling of language comprehension, particularly examining electrophysiological responses such as the N400 and P600 potentials. He explores how these neural markers reflect lexical retrieval and syntactic integration processes during reading and listening.
Key research themes include the interplay between surprisal-based expectation and neural correlates of language processing, with applications in computational psycholinguistics and diagnostic tools for neuropsychiatric disorders. His work integrates computational models with neurophysiological data to bridge gaps between theoretical linguistics and cognitive neuroscience.
Brouwer has contributed to projects like the 'Normative Range of P600 Morphology' (2025–2027), aimed at developing diagnostic tools for mental health through electrophysiological biomarkers. He has been recognized with the Robert J. Glushko Prize (2015) for his dissertation on cognitive science.
His publications span over 15 years, emphasizing the biphasic nature of N400-P600 interactions, computational semantics, and the role of neural networks in linguistic processing. His work often bridges formal semantics with empirical neuroscience, advancing understanding of how language is processed in the brain.
