My main area of research is psycholinguistics. I am particularly interested in the processing of morphologically complex words, i.e. words like 'post office', 'snow broom' and 'women's room', in speech production and comprehension. Phonological and semantic processing, again with a focus on morphologically complex words, are other areas of interest. In the field of psycholinguistics, I collaborate with colleagues from linguistics, especially Dutch studies.

With the Institute of Biomagnetism and Biosignal Analysis I supervise doctoral theses but also Bachelor and Master theses, mainly on emotion processing and aversion learning. The focus is on the processing of emotional expressions and the influence of tDCS on this processing. Dissertations on emotion processing or neural correlates of consciousness are carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience.

Reaction times are in most cases the relevant dependent variable in my studies. Eye movements, mostly first fixation durations and gaze durations, as well as ERPs complement RT analyses or are increasingly replacing them.

Besides teaching and reseach, I supervise the library of the Institute for Psychology.