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Angela Friederici
(born 1952 in
Cologne
, Germany) is a director at the
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
in Leipzig, Germany, and is an internationally recognized expert in
neuropsychology
and
linguistics
. She is the author of over 400 academic articles and book chapters, and has edited 15 books on linguistics,
neuroscience
, language and
psychology
. From 1970 to 1976 Angela Friederici studied linguistics at the
University of Bonn
(Germany) and the
University of Lausanne
(Switzerland), graduating with Ph.D. in linguistics in 1976. In 1975 she also began studying
psychology
at the University of Bonn and graduated with a degree in psychology (German: Dipl.-Psych.) in 1980. In 1986 she completed her professorial degree (
Habilitation
) at the
University of Giessen
. After a post-doctoral scholarship at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, and work as a research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
and the
Paris Descartes University
, Angela Friederici was awarded a professorship in
cognitive psychology
by the
Free University of Berlin
in 1989. In 1994 she became a Founding Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig, which became the
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
in 2004.
Friederici also holds honorary professorships (
Honorarprofessor
) from the
University of Leipzig
(since 1995) for
cognitive psychology
, the
University of Potsdam
for
Linguistics
in the Faculty of
Philosophy
(since 1997) and for
Medicine
at the
Charité
,
Humboldt-University
Berlin (since 2004). Friederici's research centres on how the human brain processes language, examining both first and
second language acquisition
and use. She was the first to report the
early left anterior negativity
(ELAN), an
EEG
response to syntactic violations in sentences.
Her 2016 book
Language in the Brain
was endorsed by
Noam Chomsky
, in which she stated her current position on the genetics of language study regarding the
FOXP2
gene. On page 222, Friederici states: "It has been proposed that FOXP2 is a gene that plays a major role in speech and language because the mutation of this gene was identified in a family with speech and language problems., although thery were more speech-related rather than language problems as such. The view, however, has also been challenged for several reasons. One reason is that FOXP2 can also be found in non-human primates, mice, birds, and fish, thus in animals that do not speak."