Angela D. Friederici

Angela Friederici Dorcas ( born February 3, 1952 in Cologne ) is a German neuropsychologist.

Life

From 1970 to 1976 she studied in Bonn and Lausanne ( Switzerland ), German, Romance, linguistics and psychology. Subsequent to the German - studies, she completed a doctorate on phonic and graphic language performance in aphasia: neurolinguistic studies on the phoneme - grapheme and on the Lexemebene ( University of Bonn, 1976). Your from 1975 to 1980, then studying psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, she graduated with a diploma.

After research at the Department of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine (USA), Université René Descartes, Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale in Paris and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (The Netherlands ), she qualified in 1986 at the Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen, and was appointed in 1989 as Professor of the Department of Psychology with a focus on cognitive science at the Free University of Berlin. In 1991 she refused an appointment to the University of Marburg.

Since 1994 she is a founding Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig ( now the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences). Since 1996 she is also the director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Leipzig. She is also an honorary professor at the universities of Leipzig ( since 1995), Potsdam ( since 1997) and the Charité University Medicine Berlin ( since 2004).

Her research interests mainly concern the neurocognition of language and language acquisition.

Memberships

  • Since 2007: Academia Europaea
  • Since 2003: Health Research Council of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF )
  • Since 2000: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Since 2006: Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society
  • Since 2002: Member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society
  • Since 1993: Berlin -Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

Awards

Works

  • Phonic and graphic language performance in aphasia: neurolinguistic studies on the phoneme - grapheme and on the Lexemebene, PhD thesis University of Bonn, 1976.
  • Language comprehension: a biological perspective. 2nd ed Berlin: Springer, 1999 ISBN 3540648747. .
  • Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6:78, 2002.
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