Peter Hagoort - Biography#

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Peter Hagoort (Oudewater, NL, 1954) studied at the University of Utrecht, where he obtained BA degrees in Psychology (1976, cum laude) and in Biology (1977) and, subsequently, at the University of Nijmegen*, where he got an MSc in Experimental Psychology (1982, cum laude) and a PhD in 1990.

Peter Hagoort is director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (since November 2006), and the founding director of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (1999), a cognitive neuroscience research centre at the Radboud University Nijmegen, with participation of the Universities of Maastricht, Twente and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. In addition, he is professor in cognitive neuroscience at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His own research interests relate to the domain of the human language faculty and how it is instantiated in the brain. In his research he applies neuroimaging techniques such as ERP, MEG, PET and fMRI to investigate the language system and its impairments as in aphasia, dyslexia and autism. At the Donders Centre he is currently heading the research group Neurocognition of Language. At the Max Planck Institute he is heading the department on the Neurobiology of Language. For his scientific contributions, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts Sciences (KNAW) awarded him with the Hendrik Mullerprijs in 2003. In 2004 he was created knight of the Netherlands Lion. In 2005 he received the NWO Spinoza Premium (M€ 1.5). In 2007 the University of Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate in science for his contributions to the cognitive neuroscience of language. In 2008 he was awarded the Heymans Prize of the Netherlands Institute of Psychologists. Peter Hagoort is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

In 2012 the Academy awarded Peter Hagoort its "Academy Professor Prize".

* The University of Nijmegen is now known as Radboud University