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Dr. Tineke Snijders is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology at Tilburg University's Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on unraveling the brain mechanisms underlying language and communication development, with particular emphasis on individual differences in neural processing and the interaction between brain, social, and cognitive development.
Dr. Snijders' research expertise spans infant language development, neuroimaging, EEG methodology, and neural oscillations. She investigates how infants' brains track speech rhythms and how this neural tracking relates to language acquisition, with particular interest in how social cues like eye gaze influence these processes. Her work examines maturational constraints on infants' ability to attend to temporal patterns in speech and how this affects language learning.
Her recent publications (2023-2024) demonstrate consistent output in high-impact journals, focusing on neural tracking of speech in infants, the effects of visual cues on language processing, and maturational constraints on language acquisition. These works reveal trends toward increasingly sophisticated methodologies examining multimodal aspects of infant language processing in naturalistic contexts.
- Veni grant from Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Vidi grant from Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) 2024-2028
Dr. Snijders supervises research in cognitive neuropsychology with a focus on infant language development. Her lab conducts cutting-edge research using EEG to examine neural mechanisms of language acquisition, supported by competitive NWO funding. The research environment emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches combining cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and linguistics to understand the foundations of human language.
Her research group operates within the Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, utilizing advanced neuroimaging facilities to investigate how infants' brains process speech and how this relates to language development. The research has implications for understanding typical and atypical language development, with connections to autism spectrum disorders as indicated by her research fingerprint.
