Walter van Heuven

Walter van Heuven is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham. His research focuses on monolingual and bilingual language processing, combining behavioral experiments (reaction times, eye-tracking), neuroimaging (ERP, fMRI), and computational cognitive modeling. Key interests include visual word recognition, bilingual brain mechanisms, translation activation, non-native speech perception, and executive control-language interactions.

• Research Themes:
  • Cross-language activation and inhibition in bilinguals
  • Orthographic/phonological processing in multilinguals
  • Computational modeling of lexical decision tasks
  • Neural correlates of translation priming
• Software Development:
  • Created R packages strngram, strsim for psycholinguistic string similarity analysis
  • Maintains jIAM browser-based models for BIA

His recent publications (2017-2018) explore masked priming, multi-word expression processing, and cross-language neighborhood effects, with methodological innovations in statistical analysis and neuroimaging. He contributes to teaching modules like Computational Cognitive Psychology and Cognition in the Real World.