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Overview

Peter Indefrey is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The core topics of Peter Indefrey's research include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, Action Observation and Synchronization, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Text Readability and Simplification, Categorization, Perception, and Language, as well as Multisensory Perception and Integration.

Peter Indefrey has published research papers in a variety of academic journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • The Time Course of Language Production as Revealed by Pattern Classification of MEG Sensor Data, 2022, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Validity of chronometric TMS for probing the time-course of word production: a modified replication, 2023, Cerebral Cortex
  • Syntactic processing in L2 depends on perceived reliability of the input: Evidence from P600 responses to correct input., 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Tomatoes Are Red: The Perception of Achromatic Objects Elicits Retrieval of Associated Color Knowledge, 2023, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Parallel or sequential? Decoding conceptual and phonological/phonetic information from MEG signals during language production, 2023, Cognitive Neuropsychology

Frequent co-authors in their research include Francesca Carota, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Robert Oostenveld, Adrian Jodzio, and Vitória Piai.

In terms of publication venues, Peter Indefrey frequently publishes in:

  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuropsychology

Best Publications

  • The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components.

    Peter Indefrey;Willem J. M. Levelt

  • The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components: a critical update

    Peter Indefrey

  • The Neurobiology of Language beyond Single Words

    Peter Hagoort;Peter Indefrey

  • The Neural Circuitry Involved in the Reading of German Words and Pseudowords: A PET Study

    Peter Hagoort;Peter Indefrey;Colin Brown;Hans Herzog

  • Dissociating Neural Correlates of Cognitive Components in Mental Calculation

    Oliver Gruber;P. Indefrey;H. Steinmetz;Andreas Kleinschmidt

  • A Meta-analysis of Hemodynamic Studies on First and Second Language Processing: Which Suggested Differences Can We Trust and What Do They Mean?

    Peter Indefrey

  • A neural correlate of syntactic encoding during speech production

    Peter Indefrey;Colin M. Brown;Frauke M. Hellwig;Katrin Amunts

  • Online pronoun resolution in L2 discourse: L1 influence and general learner effects

    Leah Roberts;Marianne Gullberg;Peter Indefrey

  • Syntactic processing in left prefrontal cortex is independent of lexical meaning

    Peter Indefrey;Peter Hagoort;Hans Herzog;Rüdiger J. Seitz

  • Syntactic priming in German-English bilinguals during sentence comprehension.

    Kirsten Weber;Peter Indefrey;Peter Indefrey

  • An inverse relation between event-related and time-frequency violation responses in sentence processing.

    Douglas J. Davidson;Peter Indefrey

  • Reading in a Regular Orthography: An fMRI Study Investigating the Role of Visual Familiarity

    Anja Ischebeck;Peter Indefrey;Nobuo Usui;Izuru Nose

  • Research techniques for the study of code-switching

    Marianne Gullberg;Peter Indefrey;Pieter Muysken

  • Neural responses to the production and comprehension of syntax in identical utterances.

    Peter Indefrey;Frauke M. Hellwig;Hans Herzog;Rüdiger J. Seitz

  • Functional connectivity between brain regions involved in learning words of a new language.

    Kim Veroude;David G. Norris;Elena Shumskaya;Marianne Gullberg

  • Where does the delay in L2 picture naming come from? Psycholinguistic and neurocognitive evidence on second language word production

    Jana Hanulová;Douglas J. Davidson;Peter Indefrey

  • Equivalent responses to lexical and nonlexical visual stimuli in occipital cortex: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Peter Indefrey;Andreas Kleinschmidt;Klaus-Dietmar Merboldt;Gunnar Krüger

  • Monitoring in language perception: electrophysiological and hemodynamic responses to spelling violations.

    Nan Van de Meerendonk;Peter Indefrey;Dorothee J. Chwilla;Herman H.J. Kolk

  • Prelexical and lexical processing in listening

    Peter Indefrey;Anne Cutler

  • Adult language learning after minimal exposure to an unknown natural language

    Marianne Gullberg;Leah Roberts;Christine Dimroth;Kim Veroude

  • Role of grammatical gender and semantics in German word production

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Peter Indefrey;Willem J. M. Levelt

  • An event-related potential study on changes of violation and error responses during morphosyntactic learning

    Douglas J. Davidson;Peter Indefrey

  • The neural architecture underlying the processing of written and spoken word-forms

    C. Price;P. Indefrey;M. van Turennout

  • fMRI syntactic and lexical repetition effects reveal the initial stages of learning a new language

    Kirsten Weber;Morten H. Christiansen;Karl Magnus Petersson;Peter Indefrey

  • Lexical competition in nonnative speech comprehension

    Ian FitzPatrick;Peter Indefrey;Peter Indefrey

  • How speakers interrupt themselves in managing problems in speaking: Evidence from self-repairs

    Mandana Seyfeddinipur;Sotaro Kita;Peter Indefrey

  • Idiosyncratic grammars: Syntactic processing in second language comprehension uses subjective feature representations

    Kristin Lemhöfer;Herbert Schriefers;Peter Indefrey

  • The Speaking Mind/Brain: Where do spoken words come from

    Willem J. M. Levelt;Peter Indefrey

  • The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition

    Marianne Gullberg;Peter Indefrey

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Marianne Gullberg
Marianne Gullberg Lund University
Colin M. Brown
Colin M. Brown Max Planck Society
Rüdiger J. Seitz
Rüdiger J. Seitz Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Willem J. M. Levelt
Willem J. M. Levelt Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Herbert Schriefers
Herbert Schriefers Radboud University
Alfons Schnitzler
Alfons Schnitzler Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Andreas Kleinschmidt
Andreas Kleinschmidt University of Geneva
Stefan Posse
Stefan Posse University of New Mexico
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University

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