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  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2007 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2000 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Angela D. Friederici is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

The subfields of study in which they have published are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Their research topics mostly address:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • NeuroImage
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Recent papers by Angela D. Friederici include:

  • "Primate auditory prototype in the evolution of the arcuate fasciculus," 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • "A meta-analysis of fMRI studies of language comprehension in children," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "The emergence of dyslexia in the developing brain," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Functional neuroanatomy of language without speech: An ALE meta-analysis of sign language," 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Chimpanzees produce diverse vocal sequences with ordered and recombinatorial properties," 2022, Communications Biology

Among frequent co-authors with multiple collaborations are:

  • Alfred Anwander
  • Emiliano Zaccarella
  • Roman M. Wittig
  • Catherine Crockford
  • Cornelius Eichner

Awards received by Angela D. Friederici include:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2007)
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (2000) for Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Best Publications

  • Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing.

    Angela D. Friederici

  • The Brain Basis of Language Processing: From Structure to Function

    Angela D. Friederici

  • Investigating emotion with music: an fMRI study.

    Stefan Koelsch;Thomas Fritz;D. Yves von Cramon;Karsten Müller

  • Musical syntax is processed in Broca's area: An MEG study.

    Burkhard Maess;Stefan Koelsch;Thomas C. Gunter;Angela D. Friederici

  • The role of left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension: localizing syntactic and semantic processes.

    Angela D. Friederici;Shirley-Ann Rüschemeyer;Anja Hahne;Christian J. Fiebach

  • Event-related brain potentials during natural speech processing: Effects of semantic, morphological and syntactic violations.

    Angela D. Friederici;Erdmut Pfeifer;Anja Hahne

  • Infants′ Sensitivity to the Sound Patterns of Native Language Words

    Peter W. Jusczyk;Angela D. Friederici;Jeanine M. Wessels;Vigdis Y. Svenkerud

  • The cortical language circuit: from auditory perception to sentence comprehension

    Angela D. Friederici

  • Electrophysiological Evidence for Two Steps in Syntactic Analysis: Early Automatic and Late Controlled Processes

    Anja Hahne;Angela D. Friederici

  • Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music

    Thomas Hans Fritz;Sebastian Jentschke;Nathalie Gosselin;Daniela Sammler

  • Music, language and meaning: brain signatures of semantic processing

    Stefan Koelsch;Elisabeth Kasper;Daniela Sammler;Katrin Schulze

  • Newborns' cry melody is shaped by their native language

    Birgit Mampe;Angela D. Friederici;Anne Christophe;Kathleen Wermke

  • The brain differentiates human and non-human grammars: functional localization and structural connectivity.

    Angela D. Friederici;Jörg Bahlmann;Stefan Heim;Ricarda Ines Schubotz

  • The language network

    Angela D. Friederici;Sarah M. E. Gierhan

  • The time-course of syntactic activation during language processing - A model-based on neuropsychological and neurophysiological data

    Angela D. Friederici

  • Brain Indices of Music Processing: Nonmusicians are Musical

    Stefan Koelsch;Tomas Gunter;Angela D. Friederici;Erich Schröger

  • Bach speaks: a cortical "language-network" serves the processing of music.

    Stefan Koelsch;Thomas C. Gunter;D. Yves von Cramon;Stefan Zysset

  • Evolution, brain, and the nature of language

    Robert C. Berwick;Angela D. Friederici;Noam Chomsky;Johan J. Bolhuis

  • Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing

    Karsten Steinhauer;Kai Alter;Angela D. Friederici

  • Pathways to language: fiber tracts in the human brain

    Angela D. Friederici

Frequent Co-Authors

Burkhard Maess
Burkhard Maess Max Planck Society
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Thomas C. Gunter
Thomas C. Gunter Max Planck Society
D. Yves von Cramon
D. Yves von Cramon Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Stefan Koelsch
Stefan Koelsch University of Bergen
Axel Mecklinger
Axel Mecklinger Saarland University
Gesa Hartwigsen
Gesa Hartwigsen Max Planck Society
Matthias Schlesewsky
Matthias Schlesewsky University of South Australia
Christian J. Fiebach
Christian J. Fiebach Goethe University Frankfurt
Martin Meyer
Martin Meyer University of Zurich

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