Publikationen
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2023). Sprachwahrnehmung im Säuglingsalter. Kindheit und Entwicklung, 32, 131–141.
- Blott, L. M., Gowenlock, A. E., Kievit, R., Nation, K. und Rodd, J. M. (2023). Studying individual differences in language comprehension : The challenges of item-level variability and well- matched control conditions. Journal of Cognition, 6, 1–26.
- Blott, L. M., Rodd, J. M. und Warren, J. E. (2023). Presentation format affects the behavioural and neural processing costs of sentence reinterpretation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–24.
- Schevenels, K., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Zink, I., De Smedt, B. und Vandermosten, M. (2023). Aging effects and feasibility of statistical learning tasks across modalities. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 30, 201–230.
- Rohlfing, K. J., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Caruana, N., Van den Berghe, R., Bruno, B., Tolksdorf, N. F. und Hanulíková, A. (2022). Social/
dialogical roles of social robots in supporting children's learning of language and literacy – A review and analysis of innovative roles. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022, 1–15. - Wiese, H., Alexiadou, A., Allen, S. E. M., Bunk, O., Gagarina, N., Iefremenko, K., Martynova, M., Pashkova, T., Rizou, V., Schroeder, C., Shadrova, A., Szucsich, L., Tracy, R., Tsehaye, W., Zerbian, S. und Zuban, Y. (2022). Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1–19.
- Blott, L. M., Rodd, J. M., Ferreira, F. und Warren, J. E. (2021). Recovery from misinterpretations during online sentence processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47, 968–997.
- Hosemann, J., Mani, N., Herrmann, A., Steinbach, M. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2020). Signs activate their written word translation in deaf adults: An ERP study on cross-modal co-activation in German Sign Language. Glossa, 5, 1–25.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2018). Modality-independent recruitment of inferior frontal cortex during speech processing in human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 130–138.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N., Jessen, S. und Grossmann, T. (2017). Brain responses reveal that infants' face discrimination is guided by statistical learning from distributional information. Developmental Science, 20, 1–8.
- Missana, M., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2017). Neural correlates of infants’ sensitivity to vocal expressions of peers. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 39–44.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2016). The role of left inferior frontal cortex during audiovisual speech perception in infants. NeuroImage, 133, 14–20.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N., Mani, N. und Grossmann, T. (2016). Audiovisual speech perception in infancy: The influence of vowel identity and infants' productive abilities on sensitivity to (mis)matches between auditory and visual speech cues. Developmental Psychology, 52, 191–204.
- Jessen, S., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2016). Pupillary responses reveal infants' discrimination of facial emotions independent of conscious perception. Cognition, 150, 163–169.
- Rajhans, P., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Vaish, A. und Grossmann, T. (2016). Children's altruistic behavior in context: The role of emotional responsiveness and culture. Scientific Reports, 6, 1–6.
- Schreiner, M. S., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2016). Early word segmentation in naturalistic environments: Limited effects of speech register. Infancy, 21, 625–647.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Fikkert, P. (2015). A cross-linguistic perspective on the acquisition of manner of articulation contrasts in the productions of Dutch and German children. Language Acquisition, 22, 2–39.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2015). Learning to match auditory and visual speech cues: Social influences on acquisition of phonological categories. Child Development, 86, 362–378.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N., der Feest, S. und Fikkert, P. (2014). Asymmetries in early word recognition: The case of stops and fricatives. Language Learning and Development, 10, 149–178.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2013). The impact of mispronunciations on toddler word recognition: Evidence for cascaded activation of semantically related words from mispronunciations of familiar words. Infancy, 18, 1030-1052.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2013). Word-form familiarity bootstraps infant speech segmentation. Developmental Science, 16, 980–990.
- Fikkert, P. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2013). Insights into variation across children based on longitudinal Dutch data on phonological acquisition. Studia Linguistica Germanica, 67, 148–164.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Fikkert, P. (2010). The acquisition of the stop-fricative contrast in perception and production. Lingua : International Review of General Linguistics, 120, 1898-1909.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Fikkert, P. (2007). On the acquisition of nasals in Dutch and German. Linguistics in the Netherlands, 24, 14–24.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N., Balicki, G., Bestakowa, L., Bocatius, B., Braun, J., Brehmer, L., Brune, V., Eigemeier, K., Erdem, F., Fritscher, R., Jacobs, A., Klingsporn, B., Kosinski, M., Kuntze, J., Lee, J.-R., Osterhage, A., Probost, M., Risch, T., Schmitt, T., Stock, W. G., Sturm, A., Weller, K. und Werner, K. (2005). Science and technology in the region: The output of regional science and technology, its strengths and its leading institutions. Scientometrics, 63, 463–529.
- Regen, S., Müller, J. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2023). Gesture-sound priming in preverbal infants. 2nd Annual Doctoral Conference VDS CoBeNe PhD Academy, Vienna, Austria.
- Völker, J. M., Rosner, C. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2022). Positive maternal affect – but not dialogic reading style – correlates with toddlers’ language skills. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2022, Budapest, Hungary, Online.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2021). Individual differences in attention during shared book reading predict learning of novel words in toddlers. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2021, Budapest, Hungary, Online.
- Kliesch, C., Maffongelli, L., Neumann, M.-T., Friederici, A., Paulus, M. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2021). A novel task to measure children’s planning of sequential and dependent actions. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2021, Budapest, Hungary, Online.
- Rosner, C. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2021). Mummy, read to me! Maternal reading style modulates toddlers’ language skills. LCICD 2021, 6th Lancaster International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster, UK, Online.
- Vissers, F. M. H. G., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Fritzsche, T., Demuth, K. und Benders, T. (2021). A story-based pupillometry paradigm of determiner perception in children with and without hearing loss. ISoLDE 2021, 4th Infant Studies on Language Development in Europe (ISoLDE), Potsdam, Germany, Online.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2020). Face or book: Does focus of attention during shared book reading predict word learning performance in toddlers? vICIS 2020, International Congress of Infant Studies 2020, Online.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2020). What are you looking at? Using eye tracking glasses to monitor toddlers' attention in natural learning situations. vICIS 2020, International Congress of Infant Studies 2020, Online.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2020). Word learning during shared book reading: Evidence from eye tracking. BUCLD 45, Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, Online.
- Vissers, F., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Fritzsche, T., Demuth, K. und Benders, T. (2020). Does 27-month-olds’ processing of determiner omissions depend on prosodic context? A pupillometry study. Perspectives on Language in Children with Hearing Loss Workshop, Online.
- Missana, M., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Vaish, A. und Grossmann, T. (2019). Exploring the links between brain sensitivity to emotional vocalizations in infancy and empathy-related-behavior in toddlerhood. SRCD 2019 Biennial Meeting, Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
- Sander, J., Höhle, B., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Noiray, A. (2019). Gaze dynamics during infants' vocal development. WILD 2019: Workshop on Infant Language Development, Potsdam, Germany.
- Wrzecziono, L., Wübbelmann, S., Maffongelli, L., Paulus, M. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2019). Exploring the relationship between syntax understanding, theory of mind and action planning in preschoolers. paEpsy 2019, 24. Tagung der Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Leipzig, Germany.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2018). Deciphering the mechanisms of audiovisual speech processing in infancy: Insights from studying brain and behaviour. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS 2018), Philadelphia, PA.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N., Missana, M. und Grossmann, T. (2018). Is left inferior frontal cortex recruitment during infants’ audiovisual processing language-specific? International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS 2018), Philadelphia, PA.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N., Missana, M. und Grossmann, T. (2018). Multisensory perception of human and monkey vocalizations in infants: evidence from co-registered fNIRS and eye tracking data. 51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Schreiner, M. S., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2018). Familiar words aid infants‘ word segmentation. 3rd Lancaster International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD 2018), Lancaster, U.K..
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2015). Audiovisual speech perception is influenced by infants’ vocal productivity and their attention to visual speech cues. Workshop on Infant Language Development, WILD 2015, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2015). Infants' preference to look at a speaker's mouth modulates activation of frontal brain areas during speech perception. ISDP 2015: 48th Annual Meeting Conference of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Sebastian, Spain.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2015). Is infants' babbling behavior related to the recruitment of visual and articulatory information during speech perception? SRCD 2015 Biennial Meeting (Society for Research in Child Development), Philadelphia, PA.
- Hosemann, J., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Herrmann, A., Steinbach, M. und Mani, N. (2015). Signs activate words. Neurophysiological evidence for cross-modal co-activation of German (L2) during German Sign Language sentence processing (L1). FEAST 2015: 4th Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
- Jessen, S., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2015). Emotional faces affect infants’ pupil dilation irrespective of conscious perception. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2015, Budapest, Hungary.
- Missana, M., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2015). Infants’ neural responses to other infants’ crying and laughing sounds. SRCD 2015 Biennial Meeting (Society for Research in Child Development), Philadelphia, PA.
- Schreiner, M. S., Giffhorn, A., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2015). Influence of similar sounding words on infants’ word segmentation ability. SRCD 2015 Biennial Meeting (Society for Research in Child Development), Philadelphia, PA.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2014). Matching auditory and visual speech cues: The role of social information during phoneme learning. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) 2014, Berlin, Germany.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2014). Newly learned words prime familiar words in the developing lexicon. IASCL 2014: XIIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2014). Toddlers’ use of semantic, phonological and perceptual information in determining the referent of a newly learned adjective. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) 2014, Berlin, Germany.
- Mani, N. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2014). Phonological priming in the developing lexicon: Newly learned words prime familiar words in 24-month-olds. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) 2014, Berlin, Germany.
- Schreiner, M. S., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2014). Impact of long-term exposure on infants’ word segmentation in infant- and adult-directed speech contexts. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 39, Boston, MA.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2013). Learning sound categories: The role of social information during phoneme learning. WILD 2013, Workshop on Infant Language Development, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Grossmann, T. (2013). The interplay of perception, production and audio-visual integration in early phoneme learning. International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC) 2013, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2013). Consistency matters: how pre-exposure to object and label affects word learning. SRCD 2013 Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2013). How toddlers interpret novel adjectives: The role of semantic, phonological and perceptual information during word learning. SRCD 2013 Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.
- Bobb, S. C., Altvater-Mackensen, N., von Holzen, K. und Mani, N. (2013). Listening with your cohort: Do bilingual toddlers co-activate language cohorts when hearing words in one language alone? SRCD 2013 Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.
- Hosemann, J., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Herrmann, A. und Mani, N. (2013). Cross-modal language activation. Does processing a sign (L1) also activates ist corresponding written translation (L2)? Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) 11, London, UK.
- Mani, N. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2013). Phonological similarity helps infants segment words from fluent speech. SRCD 2013 Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2012). Knowing a word helps infants to segment a similar-sounding word from fluent speech : Phonological- and lexical-level effects in toddlers’ word recognition. AMLaP 2012 Conference: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Riva del Garda, Italy.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2011). Cross-lingual phonological similarity influences recognition of words in fluent speech : evidence from an ERP-study with early bilinguals. 2011 Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2011). Phonological features in lexical activation: Graded effects in adults and toddlers. ESCOP 2011, 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Mani, N. (2011). Word activation across language borders. 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8), Oslo, Norway.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N., Van der Feest, S. und Fikkert, P. (2010). Asymmetrical perception in early word learning: Are plosives acceptable fricatives? ICIS 2010, International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Fikkert, P. (2009). Affricates in early word recognition: Complex segments or not? 6th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP6), Edinburgh, UK.
- Altvater-Mackensen, N., Santos, C. . und Fikkert, P. (2008). A cross-linguistic perspective on the role of prosodic structure in the acquisition of manner of articulation features. The 16th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK.
- Fikkert, P., Van der Feest, S. und Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2008). Perception of the stop-fricative contrast in early word learning. XVIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
- Langeslag, J., Altvater-Mackensen, N. und Fikkert, P. (2008). Bringing together perception and production: The stop-fricative contrast in the acquisition of Dutch. IASCL 2008: The XI Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, UK.