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Prof. Dr. Nicole Altvater-Mackensen

Prof. Dr. Nicole Altvater-Mackensen
Chair
University of Mannheim
Anglistik I
L 10, 11–12, Raum 217 und Schloss, EW 294
68161 Mannheim
Consultation hour(s):
By appointment

  • Research

    Prof. Dr. Nicole Altvater-Mackensen holds the Chair of Psycholinguistics. In her research, she is interested how we learn, process and represent language. A focus of her research is early language acquisition and its neural correlates. She is particularly interested in the relation between speech perception and production, the interplay between language and other cognitive domains, the role of multimodal and social information in language learning, and the influence of bilingualism on language processing. Her research uses a broad range of behavioral and neurocognitive measures such as pupillometry, EEG and fNIRS with infants, toddlers and adults.

  • Biographic Information

    She studied Linguistics, Philosophy and Psychology at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and received her PhD in Psycholinguistics from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.  After completing her graduate studies, she worked as postdoctoral researcher at the department of Psychology of Language at Georg-August-University Göttingen and the research group Early social development at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. From 2017 to 2022, she was an assistant professor for Developmental Psychology at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz. Since 2022, she has been Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Mannheim.


Publications

  • Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2022). Neuropsychologische Grundlagen der frühen Sprachentwicklung. In Sprachförderung in Kindertagesstätten (S. 37–54). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N. and Meinhardt-Injac, B. (2021). Das psychologische Experiment. In Psychologische Forschungsmethoden in den Bildungswissenschaften : eine Einführung für Lehramtsstudierende (S. 123–142). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2020). Language learning. In Chapter 8, The Handbook of Listening (S. 121–137). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.