SCHILLER, Niels O.
Biography
Niels Schiller received his MA from Trier University (Germany) in 1994. The same year, he started to carry out his PhD research at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 1997, he received his PhD in Psychology from the Radboud University in Nijmegen.
After his PhD, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University (1998-2000) and a research scientist at Maastricht University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (2000-2003). In 2004, he was appointed professor of psycholinguistics at Maastricht University and in 2006 he moved to Leiden to become professor of psycho- and neurolinguistics at Leiden University.
Since 2024, he is Chair Professor of Psycho- and Neurolinguistics at City University of Hong Kong and Head of Department of Linguistics and Translation.
Research Interests
- Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Speech Production
- Morphological and phonological encoding
- Representation of lexico-syntactic features
- Multilingualism
Key Publications
- Schiller, N. O., Boutonnet, B. P.-A., De Heer Kloots, M. L. S., Meelen, M., Ruijgrok, B., & Cheng, L. L.-S. (2020). (Not so) Great expectations: Listening to foreign-accented speech reduces the brain’s anticipatory processes. Frontiers in Psychology: Lang
- Nickels, L., Biedermann, B., Fieder, N., & Schiller, N. O. (2015). The lexical-syntactic representation of number. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30, 287-304.
- Schuhmann, T., Schiller, N. O., Goebel, R., & Sack, A. T. (2012). Speaking of which: Dissecting the neurocognitive network of language production. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 701-709.
- Koester, D. & Schiller, N. O. (2008). Morphological priming in overt language production: Electrophysiological evidence from Dutch. NeuroImage, 42, 1622-1630.
- Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (2003). Grammatical feature selection in noun phrase production: Evidence from German and Dutch. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 169-194.