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Staff Profile

Dr Margreet Vogelzang

Lecturer in Psychology

  • Email: margreet.vogelzang@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Office 4.27, Dame Margaret Barbour Building
    School of Psychology, Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Background

I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University. I am also an Affiliated Researcher at Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. My work focusses on the fields of Language and Cognition.


I have a background in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Cognitive Science. Originally from the Netherlands, I received my PhD from the University of Groningen in 2017 with Petra Hendriks and Hedderik van Rijn as my supervisors. From 2017-2019, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Esther Ruigendijk's lab at the University of Oldenburg. From 2019-2023, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Ianthi Tsimpli's lab at the University of Cambridge.

Research

My research combines psychological, linguistic, statistical, and neuroscientific methods to investigate different aspects of language and cognitive processing from an applied perspective. Specifically, I work on multilingual syntactic and semantic processing across the lifespan. Additionally, I am interested in the influence of hearing loss, socio-linguistic variables, and developmental conditions (autism spectrum) on language and cognitive processing. My research is typically experimental and uses both written and spoken stimuli, and both offline (comprehension, judgements) and online (eye-tracking, EEG, fMRI) measures. If you have any questions about my work, feel free to contact me.


My research interests include, but are not limited to, psycholinguistics, language processing, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, cognitive science, (cognitive) neuroscience, cognitive modeling, multilingualism, language acquisition, aging, pronoun processing, cross-linguistic comparisons, and individual differences.

Teaching

At Newcastle University, I teach on the following modules:

PSY2004 - Individual Differences (module coordinator)

PSY2002 - Perception

PSY3097 - Empirical project

SEL3413 - Language and Ageing (minor contribution)


At the University of Cambridge, I teach on the following modules:

Li3 - Language, Brains and Machines


In the past, I have taught courses such as Psychology of Language Processing and Learning, Neurolinguistics, and Research Methods at several universities.

Publications