Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Henk J. Haarmann

Area Director, Cognitive Neuroscience

Area: Cognitive Neuroscience

Education:

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University, 1993–1997
PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1993

Research Interests:

Memory and language
Critical thinking
Peak performance training

Projects

Divergent Thinking in Language Analysis

Publications

2013

Optimizing analysis: Connecting the dots with divergent thinking

2012

Verbal Creativity and Alpha: A brain wave entrainment study

2011

Brain Signature of Comprehending Sentences with Acoustic Noise: An fMRI study.

ERP evidence for distinguishing between orthographic/phonological and balanced adult English readers

Improving assessment of analyst-relevant divergent thinking

Modeling Creative Idea Generation Using LSA

Optimizing Analysis: Divergent thinking improves analysts’ ability to connect the dots

Validation of a Workplace-Relevant Divergent Thinking Task

2010

Optimizing Analysis: Divergent thinking improves analysts’ ability to connect the dots

2009

Alpha neurofeedback training and its implications for studies of cognitive creativity

Optimizing analysis: Divergent thinking improves analysts’ interpretation abilities

Sensitivity of lexical-sematntic competition to accumulation of shared meaning

2008

Divergent thinking in intelligence analysts: An empirical study of incubation and predictors

Divergent thinking: Cognitive predictors and problem incubation

2007

Individual differences in working memory capacity and other cognitive abilities influence L2 reading comprehension with missing information

Language performance under sustained work and sleep deprivation conditions

The development of the High-Level Language Aptitude Battery

2006

Cognitive control in foreign language processing

How does the brain cope with multiple languages?

How does the brain cope with multiple languages?

Metacognition in foreign language learning

Semantic similarity dissociates shortfrom long-term recency effects: Testing a neurocomputational model of list memory

Simultaneous interpretation and aging memory skill

2005

Active maintenance of sentence meaning in working memory: Evidence from EEG coherences

Age-related declines in context maintenance and semantic short-term memory

Are there working memory differences between simultaneous interpreters and non-interpreter multilinguals?

Are there working memory differences between simultaneous interpreters and non-interpreter multilinguals?

Long-term memory is the representational basis for semantic verbal short-term memory

Phonological and semantic working memory in simultaneous interpreters and non-interpreter multilinguals

Semantic short-term memory and its role in language processing

The demise of short-term memory revisited: Empirical and computational investigations on recency effects

The nature of semantic working memory and its role in complex cognition: A cognitive neuroscience perspective

The role of verbal short-term memory in sentence production

Working memory in polyglots: A comparison of simultaneous interpreters and non-interpreter multilinguals

2004

Helping students remember

Making working memory for US Government funding foreign language professionals

The nature of semantic short-term memory and its role in cognition

The nature of semantic short-term memory and its role in cognition

2003

Individual differences in semantic short-term memory capacity and reading comprehension

Semantic short-term memory impairment in childhood autism

Short-term semantic retention during on-line sentence comprehension: Brain potential evidence from filler-gap constructions

The active maintenance of semantic bindings in human working memory: An electro-encephalographic investigation

The nature and role of semantic short-term memory and its role in complex cognition

The nature of semantic short-term memory and its role in complex cognition

The role of semantic short-term memory in on-line sentence production

The role of semantic short-term memory in online sentence production

2002

Neural Synchronization Mediates on-Line Sentence Processing: EEG Coherence Evidence from Filler-Gap Constructions

2001

Maintenance of Semantic Information in Capacity-Limited Item Short-Term Memory