dr. Tineke Snijders

Bio

My research focuses on (individual differences in) language processing in the brain, both in the adult and during child language development. In my past work I have used a combination of different neuroimaging techniques (EEG, fMRI, MEG), in both typical and neurodivergent populations. Having studied sentence comprehension in the adult brain during my PhD at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen, and neural oscillations and entrainment to visual stimuli in autism during my postdoc years at Utrecht University, I received a Veni grant to study individual differences in neural sensitivity to rhythm in infants, and its relation to language development. After working as Senior Investigator at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, since 2021 I am an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuropsychology at Tilburg University. Here I continue to explore the interaction between brain maturation and language development, as well as the influence of multimodal cues hereon.

Expertise

infant language development

neuroimaging

EEG

oscillations

Courses

• Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology
• Intr. to Clinical Neuropsy. (Dutch Pr)

Recent publications

1. Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation fro…

   Çetinçelik, M., Rowland, C. F., & Snijders, T. M. (2023). Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study. Developmental Science, Article e13436. Advance online publication.

2. Ten-month-old infants’ neural tracking of naturalistic speech is not …

   Çetinçelik, M., Rowland, C. F., & Snijders, T. M. (2023). Ten-month-old infants’ neural tracking of naturalistic speech is not facilitated by the speaker's eye gaze. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 64, Article 101297.

3. When context matters - Absolute pitch memory in language and music

   Roncaglia, P., Carnavale-Maffe, C. J., Hendrix, P., Snijders, T., & Fukuda, E. (2023). When context matters: Absolute pitch memory in language and music. Manuscript submitted for publication. In International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition Proceedings.

4. Neural tracking in infancy predicts language development in children …

   Menn, K. H., Ward, E. K., Braukmann, R., Van den Boomen, C., Buitelaar, J., Hunnius, S., & Snijders, T. M. (2022). Neural tracking in infancy predicts language development in children with and without family history of autism. Neurobiology of Language, 3(3), 495-514.

5. Familiarity modulates neural tracking of sung and spoken utterances

   Nederlanden, C. M. V. B. D., Joanisse, M. F., Grahn, J. A., Snijders, T. M., & Schoffelen, J.-M. (2022). Familiarity modulates neural tracking of sung and spoken utterances. Neuroimage, 252, Article 119049.