Dr. James Mcqueen

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James McQueen is a Professor of Psycholinguistics at Radboud University, where he also serves as Principal Investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, and leads the Donders Centre for Cognition. He studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge. His research interests center on speech learning and speech recognition, particularly how listeners learn to recognize sounds and words in both native and non-native languages. He investigates perceptual adaptation to new talkers and the acquisition of new sounds and words. McQueen’s research addresses significant computational challenges faced by listeners, including the variability problem and lexical segmentation problem caused by the acoustic variance in speech. He takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining insights from cognitive psychology, phonetics, linguistics, and neuroscience. His work has received substantial funding from various research councils, including the Economic and Social Research Council and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea.

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