James McQueen

James McQueen is a Professor of Speech and Learning at Radboud University Nijmegen and a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. He serves as a Principal Investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Centre for Cognition). His academic journey includes a Bachelor’s degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

His research focuses on speech and language processing, particularly how listeners learn and adapt to the sounds and words of native and non-native languages. He employs a multi-disciplinary approach integrating cognitive psychology, phonetics, linguistics, and neuroscience. Key themes include speech variability, perceptual adaptation, and the computational challenges of language comprehension.

• Awards: Member of the Academia Europaea.
• Labs/Teams: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.