Lars Meyer

Dr. Lars Meyer is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, leading the Max Planck Research Group Language Cycles. He also holds a part-time position as a Research Associate in the Department of Phoniatrics and Paediatric Audiology at University Hospital Münster. His career includes roles as a doctoral student, postdoctoral researcher, and visiting scholar at institutions like the University of Georgia, Athens.

Meyer's research focuses on neurolinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental linguistics, with a strong emphasis on electrophysiological methods (e.g., EEG) to study language processing, syntax, speech timing, and neural oscillations. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with experimental neuroscience, examining how neural mechanisms underpin language acquisition, sentence comprehension, and prosody.

Key contributions include studies on the role of neural oscillations in language segmentation, the impact of electrophysiological maturation on language development, and the neural correlates of syntax processing. His group develops cutting-edge methodologies combining EEG with eye-tracking and behavioral measures to dissect real-time language processing.

Meyer holds a Dr. phil. in Linguistics from the University of Potsdam (2013) and an M.Sc. in Clinical Linguistics from the University of Groningen (2008). His research is funded through Max Planck Society grants and collaborations within the German and international neuroscience community.