Jurriaan Witteman is a Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. He is a a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the neural basis of speech perception. He uses neuro-imaging and meta-science methods (meta-analysis, replication) to study these topics and adopt an Open Science approach.

More information about Jurriaan Witteman

Fields of interest

• Cognitive neuroscience of language
• Meta-science
• Open science

Research

I am specialized in the cognitive neuroscience of prosody perception, using neuroimaging and meta-science methods (replication, meta-analysis).

Grants and awards

• Keetje Hodshon Prize for the best dissertation in Linguistics in the Netherlands (2017)
• NWO Open Competition XS grant (2023)  

Curriculum vitae

Key publications

• Witteman J., IJzendoorn M.H. van, Rilling J.K., Bos P.A., Schiller N.O. & Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. (2019), Towards a neural model of infant cry perception, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 99: 23-32.
• Witteman J., Heuven V.J. van & Schiller N.O. (2012), Hearing feelings: A quantitative meta-analysis on the neuroimaging literature of emotional prosody perception, Neuropsychologia 50(12): 7257-7263.
• Witteman J., Van IJzendoorn M.H., Velde D.J. van de, Heuven V.J. van & Schiller N.O. (2011), The nature of hemispheric specialization for linguistic and emotional prosodic perception: A meta-analysis of the lesion literature, Neuropsychologia 49(13): 3722-3738.