My research focuses on sentence level language processing, mostly syntactic and semantic processing. I am interested in how these core language processes work, how the workings change throughout the lifespan, and how they are instantiated in the brain. I use a variety of techniques including behavioural psycholinguistic experiments, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG).
Representative articles
Schoot, L., Menenti, L., Hagoort, P., & Segaert, K. (2014). A little more conversation - The influence of communicative context on syntactic priming in brain and behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 208. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00208. (PDF)
Segaert, K., Weber, K., Cladder-Micus, M., & Hagoort, P. (2014). The influence of verb-bound syntactic preferences on the processing of syntactic structures.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(5), 1448-1460. doi:10.1037/a0036796. (PDF)
Segaert, K., Weber, K., De Lange, F., Petersson, K. M., & Hagoort, P. (2013).The suppression of repetition enhancement: A review of fMRI studies. Neuropsychologia, 51, 59-66. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.11.006. (PDF)
Segaert, K., Menenti, L., Weber, K., Petersson, K. M., & Hagoort, P. (2012).Shared syntax in language production and language comprehension — An fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 1662-1670. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr249. (PDF)