CV

Falk Huettig

Born:

1971 in Räckelwitz (Germany)

Work:

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Deutscher Platz 6

04103 Leipzig

Germany

&

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

P.O. Box 310

NL- 6500 AH Nijmegen

Netherlands

Email: Falk.Huettig@mpi.nl

Web: www.falkhuettig.com

MPI Eva Leipzig web

MPI Nijmegen web

Current Positions

  • W2 Research Group Leader, at Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands (since 2013) and at Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (since 2026)
  • Invited Full Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal (since 2022)
  • Honorary Professor, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany (since 2023)

Past Academic Chairs

  • Full Professor of Psycholinguistics and Cultural Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2019-2024)
  • Visiting Professor, Free University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (2020)
  • Adjunct Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2019-2021)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India (2013-2015)

Past Research Positions

  • PI (Affiliated), Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2010-2022)
  • Research Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2007- 2013)
  • Post-doc, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Ghent, Belgium (2005-2007)

University Degrees

  • Venia Legendi (Psychology), Habilitation, University of Münster, Germany (2013)
  • PhD (Psychology), University of York, England, Advisors: Gerry Altmann, Phillip Quinlan (2004)
  • MSc by Research (Psychology), with distinction, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2001)
  • BSc Biological Sciences (Psychology), First Class (Honours), University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2000)

Selected Service

  • Staff Representative of the MPI for Psycholinguistics in the Scientific Council (‘Wissenschaftlicher Rat’) and in the Humanities & Social Sciences Section (‘Geistes- Sozial- und Humanwissenschaftliche Sektion‘) of the Max-Planck-Society (2009-2015)
  • PhD Dean, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics (2014-2022)
  • President, Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (2018-2025)

Editing

  • Editor-in-Chief:

Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science (2017-present)

  • Special Content Editor:

Brain Research (2022-present)

  • Editorial Board:

– Journal of Memory and Language (2015-present)

– Journal of Cognition (2017-present)

– Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (2022-present)

  • Special Issues: 

– 30 years visual world paradigm: The state-of-the-art Brain Research (2024)

– Recent advances in prediction in language processing research, Brain Research (2021)

– The literate mind, Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science (2021)

– Where next? The future of embodiment research, Journal of Cognition (2020)

– Effects of literacy on cognition and brain functioning, Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience (2018)

– Relationships between language production and comprehension, Journal of Memory and Language (2016)

– Visual search and visual world: Interactions among visual attention, language, and working memory, Acta Psychologica (2011)

  • Edited Books:

– Mani, N. Mishra, R: K., & Huettig, F. (2018). The Interactive Mind: Language, Vision and Attention. Chennai: Macmillan.

– Mishra, R. K., Srinivasan, N., & Huettig, F. (2015). Attention and Vision in Language Processing. Springer.

PhD Supervision

  • Susanne Brouwer (awarded 2010; co-advisor: Holger Mitterer, MPI); Thesis: Processing strongly reduced forms in casual speech, Radboud University Nijmegen; (Top 3 of 2011 linguistics theses, short-listed for Anéla/AVT Dissertation Award of the Dutch Association of Linguistics and the Netherlands National Graduate School of Linguistics)
  • Joost Rommers (awarded 2013; co-advisor: Antje Meyer, MPI); Thesis: Seeing what’s next: Processing and anticipating language referring to objects, Radboud University Nijmegen; (cum laude, highest grade in Dutch system, top 10%)
  • Alastair Smith (awarded 2015; co-advisor: Padraic Monaghan, Lancaster); Thesis:  Modelling multimodal language processing, Radboud University Nijmegen; (cum laude, highest grade in Dutch system, top 10%)
  • Florian Hintz (awarded 2015; co-advisor: Antje Meyer, MPI); Thesis: Predicting language in different contexts: The nature and limits of mechanisms in anticipatory language processing. Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Floor de Groot (awarded 2016; VU Amsterdam; co-advisor: Chris Olivers, VU Amsterdam); Thesis: Looking, language, and memory: Testing a working memory model of language-attention interactions
  • Markus Ostarek (awarded 2018); Thesis: Envisioning language: An exploration of perceptual processes in language processing, Radboud University Nijmegen; (cum laude, highest grade in Dutch system, top 10%)
  • Saoradh Favier (awarded 2020; co-advisor: Antje Meyer, MPI); Thesis: Individual differences in syntactic knowledge and processing: Exploring the role of literacy experience, Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Figen Karaca (awarded 2025, co-advisors: Susanne Brouwer & Sharon Unsworth, Radboud University): Thesis:  On knowing what lies ahead: The interplay of prediction, experience, and proficiency, Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Christopher Allison (awarded 2026, co-advisors: Thomas Lachmann, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau); Thesis:  Cognitive demands of predictive language processing: The roles of speech rate and visuospatial working memory, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, (summa cum laude, highest grade in German system, top 10%)
  • Gabriela Garrido (current; co-advisors: Stephen Levinson, Penny Brown, Elisabeth Norcliffe, MPI); Provisional thesis title:  The interface between sentence comprehension and dialogue in a Mayan language spoken in Mexico (Tzeltal) 
  • Shrishti Avinash Jagtap (current, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau; co-advisors: Shanley Allen, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau); Provisional thesis title: Understanding predictive processing in humans through language-vision interaction using the virtual hand paradigm

Selected Teaching

2025

  • Visual World Eye-tracking Workshop (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Lab Rotation, Master Cognitive Science, (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)

2024

  • Lab Rotation, Master Cognitive Science, (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)

2023

  • Methods, Master Cognitive Science, (Lehrauftrag TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)

2022

  • Methods, Master Cognitive Science, (Lehrauftrag TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)

2021

  • LET-REMA-LCEX29: Psychology of Language and Cultural Cognition course, MA Research (Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Lab Rotation, Master Cognitive Science (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)

2020

  • LET-REMA-LCEX29: Psychology of Language and Cultural Cognition course, MA Research (Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Lab Rotation, Master Cognitive Science (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)

2019

  • LET-REMA-LCEX29: Psychology of Language and Cultural Cognition course, MA Research (Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Summer school “LingPhil Summer School Svalbard”,  18-22 June (Svalbard, Norway)
  • Lab Rotation, Master Cognitive Science (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)

2018

  • Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience course, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • DGCN17: Sentence production and comprehension, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) 

2017

  • Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience course, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • DGCN17: Sentence production and comprehension, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2016

  • Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience course, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • HAC-B-086 Bachelor honours course “Eloquent apes: the astonishing human  capacity for language” (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • DGCN17: Sentence production and comprehension, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2015

  • HAC-B-086 Bachelor honours course “Eloquent apes: The astonishing human capacity for language” (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Summer school “Language Science: Current Methods and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, 3 – 7 August (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Spring school “MILANGUAGE Spring School of Language”, 27 May – 29 May (University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy)
  • DGCN17: Sentence production and comprehension, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2014

  • Autumn school “Methods in language comprehension”, 13 – 16 November (Rovereto, University of Trento, Italy)
  • Summer school “Function of attention in cognition”, 30 June – 4 July (University of Leipzig, Germany)
  • DGCN17: Language and the brain, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2013

  •  DGCN17: Language and the brain, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2012

  •  DGCN17: Language and the brain, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • MPsy1001: The psychological reality of language, Master in Psychology (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany)
  • 050031: Einflüsse der Alphabetisierung (der Lese- und Schreibfähigkeit) auf die Verarbeitung von gesprochener Sprache (Effects of literacy on spoken language processing), Bachelor in Linguistics (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

2011

  •  DGCN17: Language and the brain, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Ten Representative Publications

Literacy:

  • Huettig, F. (2026). The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading. Cambridge University Press.
  • Araujo, S., Narang, V., Misra, D., Lohagun, N., Khan, O., Singh, A., Mishra, R. K., Hervais-Adelman, A., & Huettig, F. (2023). A literacy-related color-specific deficit in rapid automatized naming: Evidence from neurotypical completely illiterate and literate adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(8), 2403-2409.
  • Huettig, F., & Ferreira, F. (2023) The myth of normal reading. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(4), 863-870.
  • Van Paridon, J., Ostarek, M., Arunkumar, M., & Huettig, F. (2021). Does neuronal recycling result in destructive competition? The influence of learning to read on the recognition of faces. Psychological Science, 32, 459-465.
  • Fernandes, T., Arunkumar, M., & Huettig, F. (2021). The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination: Evidence from illiterate, Tamil literate, and Tamil-Latin-alphabet bi-literate adults. Cognition, 206: 104493.
  • Smith, A. C., Monaghan, P., & Huettig, F. (2021). The effect of orthographic systems on the developing reading system: Typological and computational analyses. Psychological Review, 128(1), 125-159.
  • Hervais-Adelman, A., Kumar, U., Mishra, R. K., Tripathi, V. N., Guleria, A., Singh, J. P., Eisner, F., & Huettig, F. (2019). Learning to read recycles visual cortical networks without destruction. Science Advances, 5(9): eaax0262. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax0262.
  • Huettig, F., & Pickering, M. (2019). Literacy advantages beyond reading: Prediction of spoken language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(6), 464-475.
  • Huettig, F., Lachmann, T., Reis, A., & Petersson, K. M. (2018). Distinguishing cause from effect – Many deficits associated with developmental dyslexia may be a consequence of reduced and suboptimal reading experience. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(3), 333-350.
  • Skeide, M. A., Kumar, U., Mishra, R. K., Tripathi, V. N., Guleria, A., Singh, J. P., Eisner, F., & Huettig, F. (2017). Learning to read alters cortico-subcortical crosstalk in the visual system of illiterates. Science Advances, 5(3): e1602612.

Ten Representative Publications

Prediction:

  • Huettig, F. (2025). Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind. Cambridge University Press.
  • Huettig, F., Audring, J., & Jackendoff, R. (2022). A parallel architecture perspective on pre-activation and prediction in language processing. Cognition, 224:105050.
  • Onnis, L., Lim, A., Cheung, S., & Huettig, F. (2022). Is the mind inherently predicting? Exploring forward and backward looking in language processing. Cognitive Science, 46(10): e13201.
  • Huettig, F., & Guerra, E. (2019). Effects of speech rate, preview time of visual context, and participant instructions reveal strong limits on prediction in language processing. Brain Research, 1706, 196-208.
  • Mantegna, F., Hintz, F., Ostarek, M., Alday, P. M., & Huettig, F. (2019). Distinguishing integration and prediction accounts of ERP N400 modulations in language processing through experimental design. Neuropsychologia,134:107199.
  • Nieuwland, M. S., Politzer-Ahles, S., Heyselaar, E., Segaert, K., Darley, E., … & Huettig, F. (2018). Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension. eLife, 7: e33468. doi:10.7554/eLife.33468.
  • Hintz, F., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2017). Predictors of verb-mediated anticipatory eye movements in the visual world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(9), 1352-1374.
  • Huettig, F., & Janse, E. (2016). Individual differences in working memory and processing speed predict anticipatory spoken language processing in the visual world. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(1), 80-93.
  • Huettig, F., & Mani, N. (2016). Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(1), 19-31.
  • Huettig, F. (2015). Four central questions about prediction in language processing. Brain Research, 1626, 118-135.

Ten Representative Publications

Language & Vision:

  • Huettig, F., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2025). Rethinking task importance in the visual world paradigm. Brain Research, 1867: 149965.
  • Ostarek, M., & Huettig, F. (2019). Six challenges for embodiment research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(6), 593-599.
  • Ostarek, M., Joosen, D., Ishag, A., De Nijs, M., & Huettig, F. (2019). Are visual processes causally involved in “perceptual simulation” effects in the sentence-picture verification task? Cognition, 182, 84-94.
  • Smith, A. C., Monaghan, P., & Huettig, F. (2017). The multimodal nature of spoken word processing in the visual world: Testing the predictions of alternative models of multimodal integration. Journal of Memory and Language, 93, 276-303.
  • Ostarek, M., & Huettig, F. (2017). Spoken words can make the invisible visible – Testing the involvement of low-level visual representations in spoken word processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 499-508.
  • De Groot, F., Huettig, F., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2016). When meaning matters: The temporal dynamics of semantic influences on visual attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(2), 180-196.
  • Huettig, F., Olivers, C. N. L., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2011). Looking, language, and memory: Bridging research from the visual world and visual search paradigms. Acta Psychologica, 137, 138-150.
  • Huettig, F., & Altmann, G. (2011). Looking at anything that is green when hearing ‘frog’: How object surface colour and stored object colour knowledge influence language-mediated overt attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(1), 122-145.
  • Huettig, F., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). The tug of war between phonological, semantic and shape information in language-mediated visual search. Journal of Memory and Language, 57(4), 460-482.  
  • Huettig, F., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2005). Word meaning and the control of eye fixation: Semantic competitor effects and the visual world paradigm. Cognition, 96(1), B23-B32.

All publications

Books

  • Huettig, F. (2026). The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading. Cambridge University Press.
  • Huettig, F. (2025). Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind. Cambridge University Press.

Peer-reviewed journals

  • Funk, J., Huettig, F., & Hintz, F. (in press). The role of presentational timing in acquiring novel written and spoken word forms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • Allison, C., Huettig, F., Fernandez, L., & Lachmann, T. (2025). Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 40(9), 1252-1261.
  • Araújo, S., Fernandes, T., Cipriano, M., Mealha, L., Silva-Nunes, C., & Huettig, F. (2025). The true colors of reading: Literacy enhances lexical-semantic processing in rapid automatized and discrete object naming. Cognition, 262: 106172.
  • Huettig, F., & Hulstijn, J. (2025). The Enhanced Literate Mind Hypothesis. Topics in Cognitive Science, 17(4), 909-918.
  • Huettig, F., Jubran, O., & Lachmann, T. (2025). The virtual hand paradigm: A new method for studying prediction and language-vision interactions. Brain Research, 1856: 149592.
  • Huettig, F., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2025). Rethinking task importance in the visual world paradigm. Brain Research, 1867: 149965.
  • Karaca, F., Brouwer, S., Unsworth, S., & Huettig, F. (2025). Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Advance online publication.
  • Vágvölgy, R., Bergström, K., Bulajic, A., Rüsseler, J., Fernandes, T., Grosche, M., Klatte, M., Huettig, F., & Lachmann, T. (2025). The cognitive profile of adults with low literacy skills in alphabetic orthographies: A systematic review and comparison with developmental dyslexia. Educational Research Review, 46: 100659.
  • Huettig, F., & Hulstijn, J. (2024). The Enhanced Literate Mind Hypothesis. Topics in Cognitive Science. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/tops.12731.
  • Huettig, F., & Christiansen, M. H. (2024). Can large language models counter the recent decline in literacy levels? An important role for cognitive science. Cognitive Science, 48(8): e13487.
  • Baths, V., Jartarkar, M., Sood, S., Lewis, A. G., Ostarek, M., & Huettig, F. (2024). Testing the involvement of low-level visual representations during spoken word processing with non-Western students and meditators practicing Sudarshan Kriya Yoga. Brain Research, 1838: 148993.
  • Karaca, F., Brouwer, S., Unsworth, S., & Huettig, F. (2024). Morphosyntactic predictive processing in adult heritage speakers: Effects of cue availability and spoken and written language experience. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(1), 118-135.
  • Huettig, F., Voeten, C. C., Pascual, E., Liang, J., & Hintz, F. (2023). Do autistic children differ in language-mediated prediction? Cognition, 239:105571.
  • Ferreira, F. & Huettig, F. (2023). Fast and slow language processing: A window into dual-process models of cognition (commentary), Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 46:e121.
  • Araujo, S., Narang, V., Misra, D., Lohagun, N., Khan, O., Singh, A., Mishra, R. K., Hervais-Adelman, A., & Huettig, F. (2023). A literacy-related color-specific deficit in rapid automatized naming: Evidence from neurotypical completely illiterate and literate adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(8), 2403-2409.
  • Huettig, F., & Ferreira, F. (2023) The myth of normal reading. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(4), 863-870.
  • Garrido Rodriguez, G., Norcliffe, E., Brown, P., Huettig, F., & Levinson, S. C. (2023). Anticipatory processing in a verb-initial Mayan language: Eye-tracking evidence during sentence comprehension in Tseltal. Cognitive Science, 47(1):e13292.
  • Hervais-Adelman, A., Kumar, U., Mishra, R., Tripathi, V., Guleria, A., Singh, J. P., & Huettig, F. (2022). How does literacy affect speech processing? Not by enhancing cortical responses to speech, but by promoting connectivity of acoustic-phonetic and graphomotor cortices. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(47), 8826-8841.
  • Huettig, F., Audring, J., & Jackendoff, R. (2022). A parallel architecture perspective on pre-activation and prediction in language processing. Cognition, 224:105050.
  • Onnis, L., Lim, A., Cheung, S., & Huettig, F. (2022). Is the mind inherently predicting? Exploring forward and backward looking in language processing. Cognitive Science, 46(10): e13201.
  • Lee, R., Chambers, C. G., Huettig, F., & Ganea, P. A. (2022). Children’s and adult’s use of fictional discourse and semantic knowledge for prediction in language processing. PLoS One, 17(4):e0267297.
  • Liu, Y., Hintz, F., Liang, J., & Huettig, F. (2022). Prediction in challenging situations: Most bilinguals can predict upcoming semantically-related words in their L1 source language when interpreting. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25(5), 801-815.
  • Morey, R. D., Kaschak, M. P., Díez-Álamo, A. M., Glenberg, A. M., Zwaan, R. A., Lakens, D., Ibáñez, A., García, A., Gianelli, C., Jones, J. L., Madden, J., Alifano, F., Bergen, B., Bloxsom, N. G., Bub, D. N., Cai, Z. G., Chartier, C. R., Chatterjee, A., Conwell, E., Cook, S. W. and 25 more (2022). A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 613-626.IF 5.536
  • Araújo, S., Huettig, F., & Meyer, A. S. (2021). What underlies the deficit in rapid automatized naming (RAN) in adults with dyslexia? Evidence from eye movements. Scientific Studies of Reading, 25(6), 534-549. IF 2.91
  • Arunkumar, M., Van Paridon, J., Ostarek, M., & Huettig, F. (2021). Do illiterates have illusions? A conceptual (non)replication of Luria (1976). Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5, 143-158.
  • Eviatar, Z., & Huettig, F. (2021). The literate mind. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5, 81-84.
  • Favier, S., & Huettig, F. (2021). Are there core and peripheral syntactic structures? Experimental evidence from Dutch native speakers with varying literacy levels. Lingua, 251: 102991. IF 0.719
  • Favier, S., & Huettig, F. (2021). Long-term written language experience affects grammaticality judgments and usage but not priming of spoken sentences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(8), 1378-1395. IF 2.488 
  • Favier, S., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2021). Literacy can enhance syntactic prediction in spoken language processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(10), 2167-2174. IF 4.913 
  • Fernandes, T., Arunkumar, M., & Huettig, F. (2021). The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination: Evidence from illiterate, Tamil literate, and Tamil-Latin-alphabet bi-literate adults. Cognition, 206: 104493. IF 3.537 
  • Onnis, L., & Huettig, F. (2021). Can prediction and retrodiction explain whether frequent multi-word phrases are accessed ’precompiled’ from memory or compositionally constructed on the fly? Brain Research, 1772: 147674. IF 3.125 
  • Hu, Y., Lv, Q., Pascual, E., Liang, J., & Huettig, F. (2021). Syntactic priming in illiterate and literate older Chinese adults. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5, 267-286. 
  • Smith, A. C., Monaghan, P., & Huettig, F. (2021). The effect of orthographic systems on the developing reading system: Typological and computational analyses. Psychological Review, 128(1), 125-159. IF 6.857 
  • Speed, L. J., Chen, J., Huettig, F., & Majid, A. (in press). Classifier categories reflect, but do not affect conceptual organization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. IF 2.319 
  • Van Paridon, J., Ostarek, M., Arunkumar, M., & Huettig, F. (2021). Does neuronal recycling result in destructive competition? The influence of learning to read on the recognition of faces. Psychological Science, 32, 459-465. IF 4.902 
  • Vágvölgyi, R., Bergström, K., Bulajić, A., Klatte, M., Fernandes, T., Grosche, M., Huettig, F., Rüsseler, J., & Lachmann, T. (2021). Functional illiteracy and developmental dyslexia: Looking for common roots. A systematic review. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5, 159-179.
  • Hintz, F., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2020). Activating words beyond the unfolding sentence: Contributions of event simulation and word associations to discourse reading. Neuropsychologia, 141: 107409. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107409. IF 2.888 
  • Hintz, F., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2020). Visual context constrains language-mediated anticipatory eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(3), 458-467. doi:10.1177/1747021819881615. IF 2.488 
  • Nieuwland, M. S., Barr, D. J., Bartolozzi, F., Busch-Moreno, S., Darley, E., Donaldson, D. I., Ferguson, H. J., Fu, X., Heyselaar, E., Huettig, F., Husband, E. M., Ito, A., Kazanina, N., Kogan, V., Kohút, Z., Kulakova, E., Mézière, D., Politzer-Ahles, S., Rousselet, G., Rueschemeyer, S.-A., Segaert, K., Tuomainen, J., & Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn, S. (2020). Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension: Evidence from a large-scale study using brain potentials. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 375: 20180522. doi:10.1098/rstb.2018.0522. IF 6.139 
  • Mantegna, F., Hintz, F., Ostarek, M., Alday, P. M., & Huettig, F. (2019). Distinguishing integration and prediction accounts of ERP N400 modulations in language processing through experimental design. Neuropsychologia, 134: 107199. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107199. IF 2.888 
  • Hervais-Adelman, A., Kumar, U., Mishra, R. K., Tripathi, V. N., Guleria, A., Singh, J. P., Eisner, F., & Huettig, F. (2019). Learning to read recycles visual cortical networks without destruction. Science Advances, 5(9): eaax0262. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax0262. IF 13.116 
  • Ostarek, M., & Huettig, F. (2019). Six challenges for embodiment research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(6), 593-599. doi:10.1177/0963721419866441. IF 4.673 
  • Araújo, S., Fernandes, T., & Huettig, F. (2019). Learning to read facilitates retrieval of phonological representations in rapid automatized naming: Evidence from unschooled illiterate, ex-illiterate, and schooled literate adults. Developmental Science, 22(4): e12783. doi:10.1111/desc.12783. IF 4.078 
  • Favier, S., Wright, A., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2019). Proficiency modulates between- but not within-language structural priming. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 3(suppl. 1), 105-124. doi:10.1007/s41809-019-00029-1. 
  • Nuthmann, A., De Groot, F., Huettig, F., & Olivers, C. L. N. (2019). Extrafoveal attentional capture by object semantics. PLoS One, 14(5): e0217051. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0217051. IF 2.740 
  • Huettig, F., & Guerra, E. (2019). Effects of speech rate, preview time of visual context, and participant instructions reveal strong limits on prediction in language processing. Brain Research, 1706, 196-208. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2018.11.013. IF 3.125 
  • Smalle, E., Szmalec, A., Bogaerts, L., Page, M. P. A., Narang, V., Misra, D., Araujo, S., Lohagun, N., Khan, O., Singh, A., Mishra, R. K., & Huettig, F. (2019). Literacy improves short-term serial recall of spoken verbal but not visuospatial items – Evidence from illiterate and literate adults. Cognition, 185, 144-150. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.012. IF 3.537 
  • Ostarek, M., Joosen, D., Ishag, A., De Nijs, M., & Huettig, F. (2019). Are visual processes causally involved in “perceptual simulation” effects in the sentence-picture verification task? Cognition, 182, 84-94. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.017. IF 3.537 
  • Huettig, F., & Pickering, M. (2019). Literacy advantages beyond reading: Prediction of spoken language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(6), 464-475. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.03.008. IF 15.402 
  • Huettig, F., Kolinsky, R., & Lachmann, T. (2018). The culturally co-opted brain: How literacy affects the human mind. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(3), 275-277. doi:10.1080/23273798.2018.1425803. IF 2.750 
  • Ostarek, M., Ishag, I., Joosen, D., & Huettig, F. (2018). Saccade trajectories reveal dynamic interactions of semantic and spatial information during the processing of implicitly spatial words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(10), 1658-1670. doi:10.1037/xlm0000536. IF 2.319 
  • Huettig, F., Lachmann, T., Reis, A., & Petersson, K. M. (2018). Distinguishing cause from effect – Many deficits associated with developmental dyslexia may be a consequence of reduced and suboptimal reading experience. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(3), 333-350. doi:10.1080/23273798.2017.1348528. IF 2.750 
  • Skeide, M. A., Kumar, U., Mishra, R. K., Tripathi, V. N., Guleria, A., Singh, J. P., Eisner, F., & Huettig, F. (2017). Learning to read alters cortico-subcortical cross-talk in the visual system of illiterates. Science Advances, 3(5): e1602612. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1602612. IF 13.116 
  • Hintz, F., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2017). Predictors of verb-mediated anticipatory eye movements in the visual world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(9), 1352-1374. doi:10.1037/xlm0000388. IF 2.319 
  • Smith, A. C., Monaghan, P., & Huettig, F. (2017). The multimodal nature of spoken word processing in the visual world: Testing the predictions of alternative models of multimodal integration. Journal of Memory and Language, 93, 276-303. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2016.08.005. IF 4.014 
  • De Groot, F., Huettig, F., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2017). Language-induced visual and semantic biases in visual search are subject to task requirements. Visual Cognition, 25, 225-240. doi:10.1080/13506285.2017.1324934. IF 1.102 
  • Huettig, F., Mishra, R. K., & Padakannaya, P. (2017). Editorial. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 1(1), 1. doi:10.1007/s41809-017-0006-2
  • Martin, A. E., Huettig, F., & Nieuwland, M. S. (2017). Can structural priming answer the important questions about language? A commentary on Branigan and Pickering “An experimental approach to linguistic representation”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40: e304. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000528. IF 17.194 
  • Ostarek, M., & Huettig, F. (2017). A task-dependent causal role for low-level visual processes in spoken word comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(8), 1215-1224. doi:10.1037/xlm0000375. IF 2.319 
  • Ostarek, M., & Huettig, F. (2017). Spoken words can make the invisible visible – Testing the involvement of low-level visual representations in spoken word processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 499-508. doi:10.1037/xhp0000313. IF 2.450 
  • Lai, V. T., & Huettig, F. (2016). When prediction is fulfilled: Insight from emotion processing. Neuropsychologia, 85, 110-117. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.014. IF 2.888 
  • Meyer, A. S., Huettig, F., & Levelt, W. J. M. (2016). Same, different, or closely related: What is the relationship between language production and comprehension? Journal of Memory and Language, 89, 1-7. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2016.03.002. IF 4.014 
  • Bobb, S., Huettig, F., & Mani, N. (2016). Predicting visual information during sentence processing: Toddlers activate an object’s shape before it is mentioned. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151, 51-64. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.11.002. IF 2.424 
  • De Groot, F., Huettig, F., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2016). When meaning matters: The temporal dynamics of semantic influences on visual attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(2), 180-196. doi:10.1037/xhp0000102. IF 2.450 
  • De Groot, F., Huettig, F., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2016). Revisiting the looking at nothing phenomenon: Visual and semantic biases in memory search. Visual Cognition, 24, 226-245. doi:10.1080/13506285.2016.1221013. IF 1.102 
  • Huettig, F., & Mani, N. (2016). Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(1), 19-31. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1072223. IF 2.750 
  • Mani, N., Daum, M., & Huettig, F. (2016). “Pro-active” in many ways: Developmental evidence for a dynamic pluralistic approach to prediction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(11), 2189-2201. doi:10.1080/17470218.2015.1111395. IF 2.077 
  • De Groot, F., Koelewijn, T., Huettig, F., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2016). A stimulus set of words and pictures matched for visual and semantic similarity. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28(1), 1-15. doi:10.1080/20445911.2015.1101119. IF 0.993 
  • Huettig, F., & Janse, E. (2016). Individual differences in working memory and processing speed predict anticipatory spoken language processing in the visual world. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(1), 80-93. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1047459. IF 2.750 
  • Hintz, F., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2016). Encouraging prediction during production facilitates subsequent comprehension: Evidence from interleaved object naming in sentence context and sentence reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(6), 1056-1063. doi:10.1080/17470218.2015.1131309. IF 2.077 
  • Huettig, F., & Brouwer, S. (2015). Delayed anticipatory spoken language processing in adults with dyslexia – Evidence from eye-tracking. Dyslexia, 21(2), 97-122. doi:10.1002/dys.1497. IF1.458 
  • Huettig, F. (2015). Four central questions about prediction in language processing. Brain Research, 1626, 118-135. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2015.02.014. IF 3.125 
  • Rommers, J., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2015). Verbal and nonverbal predictors of language-mediated anticipatory eye movements. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77(3), 720-730. doi:10.3758/s13414-015-0873-x. IF 1.967 
  • Huettig, F., & Mishra, R. K. (2014). How literacy acquisition affects the illiterate mind – A critical examination of theories and evidence. Language and Linguistics Compass, 8(10), 401-427. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12092. IF 1.548 
  • Olivers, C. N. L., Huettig, F., Singh, J. P., & Mishra, R. K. (2014). The influence of literacy on visual search. Visual Cognition, 21, 74-101. doi:10.1080/13506285.2013.875498. IF 1.102 
  • Mani, N., & Huettig, F. (2014). Word reading skill predicts anticipation of upcoming spoken language input: A study of children developing proficiency in reading. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 264-279. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2014.05.004. IF 2.424 
  • McQueen, J. M., & Huettig, F. (2014). Interference of spoken word recognition through phonological priming from visual objects and printed words. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76, 190-200. doi:10.3758/s13414-013-0560-8. IF 1.967 
  • Smith, A. C., Monaghan, P., & Huettig, F. (2014). Literacy effects on language and vision: Emergent effects from an amodal shared resource (ASR) computational model. Cognitive Psychology, 75, 28-54. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2014.07.002. IF 4.537 
  • Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2013). Discourse context and the recognition of reduced and canonical spoken words. Applied Psycholinguistics, 34, 519-539. doi:10.1017/S0142716411000853. IF 0.950 
  • Smith, A. C., Monaghan, P., & Huettig, F. (2013). An amodal shared resource model of language-mediated visual attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 4: 528. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00528. IF 2.129 
  • Mani, N., Johnson, E., McQueen, J. M., & Huettig, F. (2013). How yellow is your banana? Toddlers’ language-mediated visual search in referent-present tasks. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1036-1044. doi:10.1037/a0029382. IF2.934 
  • Mani, N., & Huettig, F. (2013). Towards a complete multiple-mechanism account of predictive language processing [Commentary on Pickering & Garrod]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 365-366. doi:10.1017/S0140525X12002646. IF 17.194 
  • Rommers, J., Meyer, A. S., Praamstra, P., & Huettig, F. (2013). The contents of predictions in sentence comprehension: Activation of the shape of objects before they are referred to. Neuropsychologia, 51(3), 437-447. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.002. IF 2.888 
  • Rommers, J., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (2013). Object shape and orientation do not routinely influence performance during language processing. Psychological Science, 24, 2218-2225. doi:10.1177/0956797613490746. IF 4.902 
  • Mishra, R. K., Singh, N., Pandey, A., & Huettig, F. (2012). Spoken language-mediated anticipatory eye movements are modulated by reading ability: Evidence from Indian low and high literates. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 5(1): 3, pp. 1-10. doi:10.16910/jemr.5.1.3. IF 1.840 
  • Huettig, F., Mishra, R. K., & Olivers, C. N. (2012). Mechanisms and representations of language-mediated visual attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 394. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00394. 2.129 IF 2.129 
  • Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2012). Can hearing puter activate pupil? Phonological competition and the processing of reduced spoken words in spontaneous conversations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2193-2220. doi:10.1080/17470218.2012.693109. IF 2.488 
  • McQueen, J. M., & Huettig, F. (2012). Changing only the probability that spoken words will be distorted changes how they are recognized. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(1), 509-517. doi:10.1121/1.3664087. IF 1.819 
  • Hanulikova, A., Dediu, D., Fang, Z., Basnakova, J., & Huettig, F. (2012). Individual differences in the acquisition of a complex L2 phonology: A training study. Language Learning, 62(Supplement S2), 79-109. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00707.x. IF 2.000 
  • Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2012). Speech reductions change the dynamics of competition during spoken word recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27(4), 539-571. doi:10.1080/01690965.2011.555268. IF 2.750 
  • Mani, N., & Huettig, F. (2012). Prediction during language processing is a piece of cake – but only for skilled producers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(4), 843-847. doi:10.1037/a0029284. IF 2.450 
  • Huettig, F., Singh, N., & Mishra, R. K. (2011). Language-mediated visual orienting behavior in low and high literates. Frontiers in Psychology, 2: e285. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00285. IF 2.129 
  • Huettig, F., & Altmann, G. (2011). Looking at anything that is green when hearing ‘frog’: How object surface colour and stored object colour knowledge influence language-mediated overt attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(1), 122-145. doi:10.1080/17470218.2010.481474. IF 2.488 
  • Hartsuiker, R. J., Huettig, F., & Olivers, C. N. (2011). Visual search and visual world: Interactions among visual attention, language, and working memory (introduction to the special issue). Acta Psychologica, 137(2), 135-137. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.01.005. IF 2.031 
  • Johnson, E., McQueen, J. M., & Huettig, F. (2011). Toddlers’ language-mediated visual search: They need not have the words for it. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1672-1682. doi:10.1080/17470218.2011.594165. IF 2.488 
  • Johnson, E. K., & Huettig, F. (2011). Eye movements during language-mediated visual search reveal a strong link between overt visual attention and lexical processing in 36-months-olds. Psychological Research, 75, 35-42. doi:10.1007/s00426-010-0285-4. IF 2.500 
  • Huettig, F., Olivers, C. N. L., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2011). Looking, language, and memory: Bridging research from the visual world and visual search paradigms. Acta Psychologica, 137, 138-150. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.07.013. 2.031 IF 2.031 
  • Huettig, F., Rommers, J., & Meyer, A. S. (2011). Using the visual world paradigm to study language processing: A review and critical evaluation. Acta Psychologica, 137, 151-171. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.11.003. IF 2.031 
  • Huettig, F., & McQueen, J. M. (2011). The nature of the visual environment induces implicit biases during language-mediated visual search. Memory & Cognition, 39, 1068-1084. doi:10.3758/s13421-011-0086-z. IF 2.502 
  • Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2010). Shadowing reduced speech and alignment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128(1), EL32-EL37. doi:10.1121/1.3448022. IF 1.819 
  • Huettig, F., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2010). Listening to yourself is like listening to others: External, but not internal, verbal self-monitoring is based on speech perception. Language and Cognitive Processes, 3, 347 -374. doi:10.1080/01690960903046926. IF 2.750 
  • Huettig, F., Chen, J., Bowerman, M., & Majid, A. (2010). Do language-specific categories shape conceptual processing? Mandarin classifier distinctions influence eye gaze behavior, but only during linguistic processing. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 10(1/2), 39-58. doi:10.1163/156853710X497167. IF 0.790 
  • Majid, A., & Huettig, F. (2008). A crosslinguistic perspective on semantic cognition [commentary on Precis of Semantic cognition: A parallel distributed approach by Timothy T. Rogers and James L. McClelland]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(6), 720-721. doi:10.1017/S0140525X08005967. IF 17.194 
  • Huettig, F., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2008). When you name the pizza you look at the coin and the bread: Eye movements reveal semantic activation during word production. Memory & Cognition, 36(2), 341-360. doi:10.3758/MC.36.2.341. IF 2.502 
  • Huettig, F., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). The tug of war between phonological, semantic and shape information in language-mediated visual search. Journal of Memory and Language, 57(4), 460-482. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2007.02.001. IF 4.014 
  • Huettig, F., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2007). Visual-shape competition during language-mediated attention is based on lexical input and not modulated by contextual appropriateness. Visual Cognition, 15(8), 985-1018. doi:10.1080/13506280601130875. IF 1.102 
  • Huettig, F., Quinlan, P. T., McDonald, S. A., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2006). Models of high-dimensional semantic space predict language-mediated eye movements in the visual world. Acta Psychologica, 121(1), 65-80. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.06.002. IF 2.031 
  • Huettig, F., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2005). Word meaning and the control of eye fixation: Semantic competitor effects and the visual world paradigm. Cognition, 96(1), B23-B32. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2004.10.003. IF 3.537

Books

  • Mani, N. Mishra, R. K., & F. Huettig (Eds.), The Interactive Mind: Language, Vision and Attention (pp. 1-2). Chennai: Macmillan Publishers India.
  • ​ Mishra, R., Srinivasan, N., & Huettig, F. (Eds.). (2015). Attention and vision in language processing. Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-81-322-2443-3.

Book chapters

  • Karaca, F., Brouwer, S., Unsworth, S., & Huettig, F. (2021). Prediction in bilingual children: The missing piece of the puzzle. In E. Kaan, & T. Grüter (Eds.), Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning (pp. 116-137). Amsterdam: Benjamins
  • Mitterer, H., Brouwer, S., & Huettig, F. (2018). How important is prediction for understanding spontaneous speech? In N. Mani, R. K. Mishra, & F. Huettig (Eds.), The Interactive Mind: Language, Vision and Attention (pp. 26-40). Chennai: Macmillan Publishers India. 
  • Mani, N., Mishra, R. K., & Huettig, F. (2018). Introduction to ‘The Interactive Mind: Language, Vision and Attention’. In N. Mani, R. K. Mishra, & F. Huettig (Eds.), The Interactive Mind: Language, Vision and Attention (pp. 1-2). Chennai: Macmillan Publishers India. 
  • Smith, A. C., Monaghan, P., & Huettig, F. (2016). Complex word recognition behaviour emerges from the richness of the word learning environment. In K. Twomey, A. C. Smith, G. Westermann, & P. Monaghan (Eds.), Neurocomputational Models of Cognitive Development and Processing: Proceedings of the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (pp. 99-114). Singapore: World Scientific. doi:10.1142/9789814699341_0007. 
  • Hintz, F., & Huettig, F. (2015). The complexity of the visual environment modulates language-mediated eye gaze. In R. Mishra, N. Srinivasan, & F. Huettig (Eds.), Attention and Vision in Language Processing (pp. 39-55). Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-81-322-2443-3_3. 
  • Huettig, F., Srinivasan, N., & Mishra, R. (2015). Introduction to ‘Attention and vision in language processing’. In R. Mishra, N. Srinivasan, & F. Huettig (Eds.), Attention and vision in language processing. (pp. V-IX). Berlin: Springer. 
  • Huettig, F. (2014). Role of prediction in language learning. In P. J. Brooks, & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language development (pp. 479-481). London: Sage Publications. 
  • Smith, A. C., Monaghan, P., & Huettig, F. (2014). Modelling language – vision interactions in the hub and spoke framework. In J. Mayor, & P. Gomez (Eds.), Computational Models of Cognitive Processes: Proceedings of the 13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW13). (pp. 3-16). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. 
  • Huettig, F. (2013). Young children’s use of color information during language-vision mapping. In B. R. Kar (Ed.), Cognition and brain development: Converging evidence from various methodologies (pp. 368-391). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. 
  • Mishra, R. K., Olivers, C. N. L., & Huettig, F. (2013). Spoken language and the decision to move the eyes: To what extent are language-mediated eye movements automatic? In V. S. C. Pammi, & N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research: Decision making: Neural and behavioural approaches (pp. 135-149). New York: Elsevier. 
  • Huettig, F. (2011). The role of color during language-vision interactions. In R. K. Mishra, & N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Language-Cognition interface: State of the art (pp. 93-113). München: Lincom. 
  • Huettig, F., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2004). The online processing of ambiguous and unambiguous words in context: Evidence from head-mounted eye-tracking. In M. Carreiras, & C. Clifton (Eds.), The on-line study of sentence comprehension: Eyetracking, ERP and beyond (pp. 187-207). New York: Psychology Press.