Karsten Steinhauer
Assistant Professor and Tier 2 CRC
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
McGill University
Beatty Hall, 1266 Pine Avenue West
tel: 514-398-2413
e-mail: karsten.steinhauer(at)mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Principal Member
Research Themes
Language Acquisition
Neural Bases of Language
Visual Language Processing
Areas of Expertise
Current Research Interests
Research interests lie primarily in the areas of psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience. Current projects focus on the neural organization and temporal online dynamics of processes underlying language perception, particularly using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and other brain imaging techniques. This includes interactions among syntactic, semantic, morphological and (overt or covert) prosodic information in listeners and readers. In addition, Dr. Steinhauer's recent work addresses issues of bilingualism and second language acquisition in adults, investigating both natural languages and a highly controlled artificial language.
Selected Publications
- Drury, J., Steinhauer, K., Pancheva, R., Ullman, M.T. (Submitted). The definiteness effect in English existential constructions: An ERP study. Brain Research.
- Meyer, M., Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., Friederici, A.D., von Cramon, D.Y. (2004). Brain activity varies with modulation of dynamic pitch variance in sentence melody. Brain and Language, 89, (2), 277-289.
- Steinhauer, K. (2003). Electrophysiological correlates of prosody and punctuation. Brain and Language, 86 (1), 142-164.
- Friederici, A.D., Steinhauer, K. & Pfeifer, E. (2002). Brain signatures of artificial language processing: Evidence challenging the critical period hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 99, 529-534.
- Steinhauer, K. (2003). Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., & Friederici, A.D. (1999). Brain responses indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 191-196.
Graduate Students
- John Drury (PhD, postdoctoral fellow)
- Efrat Pauker (PhD candidate)
- Erin White (PhD candidate, co-supervised)
